Robot Builder's Bonanza, 4th Edition - Softcover

Mccomb, Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071750363 ISBN 13: 9780071750363

Verlag: McGraw-Hill/Tab Electronics, 2011

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The Bestselling Robotics Book--Now with New Projects and Online Tools!

"Amazing...should be required reading for any budding robot builder!" -GeekDad, Wired.com

Have fun while learning how to design, construct, and use small robots! This richly illustrated guide offers everything you need to know to construct sophisticated, fully autonomous robots that can be programmed from your computer. Fully updated with the latest technologies and techniques, Robot Builder's Bonanza, Fourth Edition includes step-by-step plans that take you from building basic motorized platforms to giving the machine a brain--and teaching it to walk, talk, and obey commands.

This robot builder's paradise is packed with more than 100 affordable projects, including 10 completely new robot designs. The projects are modular and can be combined to create a variety of highly intelligent and workable robots of all shapes and sizes. Mix and match the projects to develop your own unique creations. The only limit is your imagination!

Robot Builder's Bonanza, Fourth Edition covers:

• Parts, materials, and tools
• Building motorized wooden, plastic, and metal platforms
• Rapid prototyping methods
• Drafting bots with computer-aided design
• Constructing high-tech robots from toys
• Building bots from found parts
• Power, motors, and locomotion
• Robots with wheels, tracks, and legs
• Constructing robotic arms and grippers
• Robot electronics and circuit making
• Computers and electronic control
• Microcontrollers--Arduino, PICAXE, and the BASIC stamp
• Remote control systems
• Sensors, navigation, and visual feedback
• Robot vision via proximity, light, and distance

New! FREE online content at:
www.robotoid.com

• My First Robot tutorial lessons
• Project parts finder
• Animated, interactive learning tools
• How-to videos, robot e-plans, bonus articles, links, and more

Plus, go to:
www.mhprofessional.com/rbb4 for:

• Downloadable programs
• RBB app notes
• Bonus chapters

Make Great Stuff!
TAB, an imprint of McGraw-Hill Professional, is a leading publisher of DIY technology books for makers, hackers, and electronics hobbyists.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gordon McComb is an avid electronics hobbyist and is the author of 50 books and over thousand magazine articles. He wrote the best-selling Robot Builder's Bonanza the most popular book on amateur robotics, as well as Robot Builder's Sourcebook, Gordon McComb's Gadgeteer's Goldmine, and Laser Cookbook.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill/Tab Electronics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0071750363
• ISBN 13: 9780071750363
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 4
• Anzahl der Seiten: 736
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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