Intermediate Robot Building by David Cook
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- Pub. Date: April 2004
- 464pp
- Sales Rank: 120,836
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: April 2004
- Publisher: Apress L. P.
- Format: Paperback, 464pp
- Sales Rank: 120,836
- Series: Technology in Action Series
- ISBN-13: 9781590593738
- ISBN: 1590593731
Synopsis
This book provides far more detail on the hardware aspects of robot building than any other I have seen to date and is worth picking up.
— R. Steven Rainwater, Robots.net
This book is highly recommended as the
explanations are clear, and the explanations are useful.
— Colin McGregor, The Canadian Linux Users' Exchange
For readers of Robot Building for Beginners (Apress, 2002), welcome to the next level! Intermediate Robot Building offers the kind of real-world knowledge that only an experienced robot builder can offerthe kind of knowledge beginners usually have to learn through mistakes. In this book, you'll learn the value of a robot heartbeat and the purpose of the wavy lines in photocells. You'll find out what electronic part you should sand. You'll discover how a well-placed switch can help a robot avoid obstacles better than a pair of feelers. And you'll avoid mistakes that can cause a capacitor to explode.
Want a robot that can explore rooms, follow lines, or battle opponents in mini-sumo? This book presents step-by-step instructions and circuit and part descriptions so that you can build the robot featured in the book or apply the modules to your own robot designs.
Finally, you'll find the complete schematics for Roundabout, a room explorer that requires no programming and uses only off-the-shelf electronics. With Roundabout, you'll use many of the same techniques used by professional robotics engineersand you'll experience many of the samechallenges and joys they feel when a robot "comes to life."
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Biography
David Cook is an engineering manager at Motorola. He has 20 years of experience as a software developer, creating everything from award-winning computer games to mobile background-check applications for police. Self-taught in electronics and basic mechanics, David explains his years of robot experiences to the average backyard scientist in a comfortable and helpful manner, without scholarly intimidation. David hosts the popular robot site RobotRoom.com.
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Intermediate Robot Buildingby Anonymous
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May 03, 2007: This book looks like the first one, but filled with more information. I'm looking forward to buying it and I think I will enjoy this book and building Roundabout because I enjoyed reading the first book and building Sandwich.
Intermediate Robot Buildingby Anonymous
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July 10, 2004: Very cool narrative aimed straight at the hardcore tinkerer. For the restless kid inside you, that really digged hands on experience, and who perhaps is left neglected by all this software/web browsing. There are sections of the book that could have been written in the 1970s and 1980s. Like chapters 9 and 10, Driving Miss Motor and Driving Mister Motor. The descriptions of the discrete components and putting them together on a breadboard in something like an npn or pnp motor driver circuit seem so much from that period. Nothing wrong about this, I might add. Much of the progress in electronics has been at ever decreasing dimensions of logic circuitry. But at the macroscopic level, where you might have to supply enough power to move a robot, for instance, much of the lessons of then are still state of the art. Cook provides here a grand tour of many tasks you might need to perform to make a nifty robot. Quite aside from whic, it also gives you a good exposure to analog electronics and electromechanical design.
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