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NEW! Learn Arduino Robotics the fun way with Arduino Robot Bonanza!
This is your robot ... with an Arduino brain!
Breathe life into the robots of your dreams—without advanced electronics or programming skills. Arduino Robot Bonanza shows you how to build autonomous robots using ordinary tools and common parts.
Learn how to wire things up, program your robot's brain, and add your own unique flair. This easy-to-follow, fully illustrated guide starts with the Teachbot and moves to more complex projects, including the musical TuneBot, the remote-controlled TeleBot, a slithering snakelike 'bot, and a robotic arm with 16 inches of reach!
The projects in Arduino Robot Bonanza are designed to be reproducible using ordinary shop tools and average construction skills. There’s no cutting heavy metal or welding, and each of the six robots are constructed using parts that are commonly available. None of the projects rely on hard-to-find or surplus components.
While robot building can be an expensive endeavor, all six plans favor lower cost parts, and encourage re-use.
Arduino Robot Bonanza covers
- Get started on the Arduino board and software
- Learn about the various Arduino boards, and how to use them in your robots
- Hook up high-tech sensors and controllers
- Write and debug powerful Arduino apps
- Navigate by walking, rolling, or slithering
- Program your 'bot to react and explore on its own
- Add remote control and wireless video
- Generate sound effects and synthesized speech
- Develop functional robot arms and grippers
- Extend plans and add exciting features
At a glance
Arduino Robot Bonanza
By Gordon McComb
ISBN-10: 007178277X
ISBN-13: 978-0071782777
416 pages
Published by McGraw-Hill/TAB
The Bestselling Robotics Book
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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
At a glance
Robot Builder’s Bonanza, Fourth Edition
By Gordon McComb
ISBN-10: 0071750363
ISBN-13: 978-0071750363
736 pages
Published by McGraw-Hill/TAB
About the author
Gordon McComb has written more than 60 books and thousands of magazine articles—more than a million copies of his books are in print, in more than a dozen languages. He’s has been called “The father of hobby robotics” by MAKE Magazine.
For 13 years, Gordon wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column on computers, which reached several million readers worldwide. He’s still a regular contributor to SERVO Magazine, and most recently completed seven years as writer of their popular Robotics Resources column.