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Robot Building for Beginners
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earning robotics by yourself isn't easy. It helps when the encouragement comes from someone who's been there. Not only does "Robot Building for Beginners" assist you in understanding component parts of robot development, but also it prepares you with techniques to learn new discoveries on your own.
Author David Cook begins with the anatomy of a homemade robot and gives you the best advice on how to proceed successfully. General sources for tools and parts are provided in a consolidated list, and specific parts are recommended throughout the book. Also, learn basic safety precautions and essential numbering and measuring systems.
An in-depth analysis of digital multimeters gives you all the information you need to select and obtain this valuable tool for yourself. Other tools and parts covered include: motors, wheels, resistors, wire strippers, needle nose pliers, tap and die, alligator clips, LEDs, solderless breadboards, soldering irons, heat-shrink tubing, photoresistors, transistors, chips, gears, nut drivers, screws, cut-off wheels, connectors, and batteries.
"Robot Building for Beginners" is an inspiring book that provides basic, practical knowledge on getting started in amateur robotics.
.... by David Cook; Paperback:600 pages; 1 edition (January 18, 2002)
Programming Robot Controllers
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Paperback: 456 pages;McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; ISBN: 0071408517; Bk&Cd-Rom edition (August 16, 2002)
* Details the PICmicro microcontroller
* Covers designing the robot system, software development, and advanced programming
* Explains microcontroller connections
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Author demonstrates how robot controllers are programmed using the versatile Microchip PICmicro Microcontroller. Covers designing the robot system, software development, and advanced programming. Softcover. CD-ROM included. .... by Myke Predko
Building Robot Drive Trains
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Leaving heavy-duty tech speak behind, the authors focus on the actual concepts and applications necessary to build and understand these critical force-conveying systems. A clear, straight-forward guide to the nuts and bolts of robot drive trains. Softcover.
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This essential title in McGraw-Hill's ROBOT DNA SERIES is just what robotics hobbyists need to build an effective drive train using inexpensive, off-the-shelf parts. Leaving heavy-duty tech speak behind, the authors focus on the actual concepts and applications necessary to build – and understand -- these critical force-conveying systems.
If you're hooked on amateur robotics and want a clear, straight-forward guide to the nuts-and-bolts of drive trains, this is the way to go.
.... by Clarke; Paperback: 400 pages; Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; ISBN: 0071408509; (September 11, 2002)
Robot Sumo: The Official Guide (Consumer)
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Experience the excitement of building your own champion battling bot!
Build a powerful and invincible robot--for full-blown competition or just for fun--using this authoritative robot resource. This team of experts gives you an inside look at the innovative new world of robotic combat, explaining the origins of the sport as well as all the elements that go into constructing a fighting robot. You'll learn technical basics from motors and wiring to locomotion, and read builders' true stories from...
.... by Pete Miles; Paperback: 376 pages; Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; ISBN: 007222617X; (October 10, 2002)
Robot Builder's Bonanza
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A major revision of the bestselling "bible" of amateur robotics building--packed with the latest
in servo motor technology, microcontrolled robots, remote control, Lego Mindstorms Kits, and other
commercial kits. Gives electronics hobbyists fully illustrated plans for 11 complete Robots, as
well as all-new coverage of Robotix-based Robots, Lego Technic-based Robots, Functionoids with
Lego Mindstorms, and Location and Motorized Systems with Servo Motors. Features a pictures and
parts list that.... by Gordon McComb, Paperback: 720 pages; 2nd edition (September 21, 2000 )
Build Your Own Combat Robot (Consumer)
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Experience the excitement of building your own champion battling bot!
Build a powerful and invincible robot--for full-blown competition or just for fun--using this authoritative robot resource. This team of experts gives you an inside look at the innovative new world of robotic combat, explaining the origins of the sport as well as all the elements that go into constructing a fighting robot. You'll learn technical basics from motors and wiring to locomotion, and read builders' true stories from...
.... by Pete Miles, Tom Carroll, Paperback: 416 pages; (February 15, 2002
Robotic Explorations: An Introduction to Engineering Through Design
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Hardcover - 462 pages 1 edition (December 7, 2000) Prentice Hall; ISBN: 0130895687
This hands-on, introductory book is based on widely available, custom robotics materials (Handy Board, Interactive C,
LEGO Technic). Covers sensors; motors, gears, and mechanism; control; handy board design; construction techniques; DC
Motor; and more. Ideal as an introduction to electrical engineering or capstone design. Also appropriate for readers
interested in electrical technology robotics.... by Fred G. Martin
Applied Robotics
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With chapters on mechanical design, sensory systems, electronic control, computer software intelligence, fuzzy logic and micro-
controller systems, this project-oriented introduction to hobby robotics provides instructions and schematics for building a
small, mobile, self-controlled robot. The CD-ROM contains source code and Atmel development tools. -- Copyright © 1999 Book
News, Inc., Portland, OR .... by Edwin Wise
Build Your Own Robot !
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Paperback - 560 pages 1 edition (March 2000) A K Peters Ltd; ISBN: 1568811020
Personal robots are about as advanced today as personal computers were on the eve of the first IBM PC in the early 1980s.
They are still the domain of hobbyists who cobble them together from scratch or from kits (available through such vendors
as robotstore.com), who join local clubs to swap code and stage contests, and whose labor of love is setting the stage for
a technological revolution. There is even an analogy to the Apple II, a ready-made, almost mass-market product: the Cye
robot. And two companies, Dyson and Eureka, are beta-testing the first potential killer app: automated vacuum cleaning.
Lunt's former column from Nuts & Volts magazine-all five years of the column are reprinted in this volume-has been to robot
hobbyists what Byte and Popular Electronics were to computer hobbyists. Along with Joseph Jones and Anita Flynn's Mobile
Robots, his book serves as an essential guide for those who want to build their own blinking, buzzing, bumbling artificial pets.
.... by Karl Lunt
Robots, Androids and Animatrons : 12 Incredible Projects You Can Build
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Paperback - 224 pages (December 1997) McGraw-Hill; ISBN: 0070328048
Starting with the novice level and progressing to medium-level complexity; author John Iovine leads readers
through the construction of 12 state-of-the-art robotics projects, which provides the foundations and
experience for building advanced robotic projects. After outlining how to modify base platforms for locomotion,
the author provides detailed information on various types of robotic sensors, including tilt, bump, and road
and wall detectors. He illustrates how to implement two different types of robotic intelligence-expert and
neural. The remainder of the book focuses on specific, hands-on projects, including a functional, life-like
android hand created with a soft rubber material and nitinol wire; a robotic "insect" controlled with a single-
board computer programmed in BASIC; and a land rover robot with telepresence systems..... by John Iovine
Personal Robotics : Real Robots to Construct, Program, and Explore the World
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Paperback - 201 pages (December 1999) A K Peters Ltd; ISBN: 156881089X
This book provides an overview of available robot products, ranging from the simple to the complex, allowing
interested readers to find the robot kit that matches their skill level and pocketbook
..... by Richard Raucci
Joe Nagata's Lego Mindstorms Idea Book
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Paperback - 200 pages (April 5, 2001) No Starch Pr; ISBN: 1886411409
LEGO MINDSTORMS is an incredibly popular robot-building kit from LEGO. This book is for you if you just want to build some
fun robots and see what they do. Joe Nagata’s LEGO MINDSTORMS Idea Book shows how to build ten fun robots, with step-by-step
instructions and lots of clear diagrams, including a rolling car, centipede, water strider, LEGOsaurus, train, walker, climber,
LEGO clock, pneumatic engine car, and a beetle. While building these robots, you’re sure to come up with ideas for building
many more robots.
The book includes complete parts lists for building the robots, a discussion of robotic mechanisms, and detailed directions for building each of the ten robots with illustrations for each step. A final section offers ideas and hints for building and having fun with LEGO MINDSTORMS robots.
.... by Joe Nagata</p>
Extreme Mindstorms: an Advanced Guide to Lego Mindstorms
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Paperback - 347 pages 1st edition (October 2000) APress; ISBN: 1893115844
A guide for professional and expert users of LEGO MINDSTORMS to its more advanced use. Teaches how to take advantage of
the three most common advanced developments, NQC, pbForth, and legOS. Also shows how to build custom sensors to greatly
extend the out-of-box experience provided by the standard parts available, as well as many other features. Softcover
.... by Dave Baum (Editor), Michael Gasperi, Ralph Hempel, Luis Villa, David Baum
Mobile Robots : Inspiration to Implementation
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Paperback 2nd edition (November 1998) A K Peters Ltd; ISBN: 1568810970
A step-by-step guide through the process of constructing two different and inexpensive yet fully functional mobile robots.
The new edition adds three chapters<-->projects for the Rug Warrior robot, examples of commercial robots, and advice on
robot design<-->and an appendix with information on robot contests..... by Joseph L. Jones, Anita M. Flynn, Bruce A. Seiger
