Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots
Publisher : Que
Author : Gareth Branwyn
ISBN :0-7897-2971-7
Year :2003
pages:384
Format :CHM
Size : 4.5 MB
Finally, a robots book for people who don't know the first thing about robotics! Absolute Beginner's Guide to Robots is well-written, inviting, and action-packed, with engaging ideas and fascinating factoids about robots
and robot-related arts and sciences. You are led gently into the intimidating world of robotics, but nearly 400 pages later, you emerge with a respectable knowledge of robot history, the major fields and "schools" of robotics today, and the basic skills and resources needed to create hobby robots. By the end of the book, you will be the proud owner of three bots, the first two of which demonstrate key robotic principles.
The third is a programmable/expandable robot, which serves as a platform for future experimentation. And best of all, these robots are built with simple to get and inexpensive parts - many of which you already have around the house!
This book is divided into three parts:
Part I, "Robot.edu," serves as a crash course in robot history, basic robot sciences, the various schools of thought driving robot evolution, and more. This is not only here to give you some background, but also to give you some conceptual tools for how to think about robots as you begin to build bots yourself.
Part II, "Gettin' Dirty with It," is where you start putting greasy thumbprints all over this book. We run through all of the basic tools, supplies, materials, and techniques used in basic robot building, review kits and building sets, and offer a number of quick tutorials on need-to-know subjects. We call these Thumbnail Guides. We also present three robot-building projects that increase in level of difficulty, from a simple one-motor walker to a programmable robot platform you can use for many experiments beyond what's covered in this book.
Part III, "Resources," is not just a two-dimensional listing of books, Web sites, and so forth, but substantive reviews of the best material out there related to robots. There is a revolution in do-it-yourself robotics going on now, with thousands of amateurs collaborating and sharing their work over the Internet.
We plug you directly into the heart of all this exciting activity. Don't mention it. It's what we live for.
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