[bfrog]

What you do really depends on what focus area you want to start diving in to. Try making a simple drone fly around for awhile automatically, you will learn all sorts of nifty things about control theory, mechanical models, digital signal processing, machine learning, telemetry and more.

Robotics as a field is quite large. There's all sorts of Robotics out there really.

JavaScript probably isn't the language of choice for Robotics though... C/C++ most definitely are a lot more widely used considering you want low latency with hard time limit control loops. Imagine if your robotics software suddenly decided it needed to garbage collect or JIT some code when it should've been making a decision to avoid collisions...

[jiert]

Thanks for the advice. Do you have any suggestions on a drone platform that would be good for a beginner?

I notice that the first thing that pops up on google for 'programming drones' is http://www.nodecopter.com/ which seems right up my alley, but I think you have a good point about learning C/C++