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Learn to make your own robots with this accessible, illustrated guide for robotics enthusiasts, featuring 13 unique robotics projects suitable for beginner to intermediate level. You’ve seen the sci-fi movies and dreamed of creating your very own robot. Now learn to build machines with your own hands that will move or perform tasks at your command.
Featuring brand-new projects and specially commissioned photography, this book uses easily sourced components to teach you simple electronics and programming. Learn to design and build your very own custom-made creations that can walk, draw or even guard your home.
Start with a space-age butterfly that skips along on its own or a robot that creates psychedelic patterns of amazing variety, then discover how to create a catapult bot that activates when movement is detected or construct an intelligent, all-terrain rover vehicle – the possibilities are endless.
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Contents Of Home Robotics
01 Basic Bots
Every roboticist must start somewhere and there’s no better place than using what’s readily available around the home. This first chapter features a series of simple mechanical robots that will hone your basic skills. These projects include Bristle Bot, Squibble Bot and Butterfly Bot – a trio of vibration robots that can skitter about. Robo Roach uses a readily available chassis that can be adapted to create an autonomous touch-sensitive robot that finds its own way around, while Spiro Bot can create amazing drawings on its own.
02 Simple RobotsMany robots use small electronic devices to imbue them with intelligence and precision control. Programming can at first seem a little scary, but in reality it’s just thinking about the world in an ordered, systematic way. To help you take your first steps into the world of software, I will teach you a graphical programming language that is simple to learn. Every piece of software also needs something to run on and so I have selected the BBC micro:bit as our embedded platform of choice.
03 Smart MakesOnce you have mastered the earlier projects, you will probably want to take on something a bit more complicated. The three advanced robots in this book have been designed to give you the flexibility to expand and modify them as you see fit. They do require a few more tools and parts than the other robots, but don’t worry – there is a simple step-by-step guide to help you build them.
Publisher : Aurum Press; Illustrated edition (January 18, 2018)
Language : English
Flexibound : 160 pages
ISBN-10 : 1781317003
ISBN-13 : 978-1781317006
Item Weight : 1.25 pounds
Dimensions : 6.88 x 0.63 x 9.25 inches