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Robot Builder's Cookbook: Build and Design Your Own Robots
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Owen Bishop introduces, through hands-on project work, the mechanics,
electronics and programming involved in practical robot design-and-build. The
use of the PIC microcontroller throughout provides a painless introduction to
programming whilst harnessing the power of a highly popular microcontroller used
by students and design engineers worldwide.
This is a book for first-time robot builders, advanced builders wanting to know
more about programming robots and students in Further and Higher Education
tackling microcontroller-based practical work. They will all find this book a
unique and exciting source of projects, ideas and techniques, to be combined
into a wide range of fascinating robots.
* Full step-by-step instructions for 5 complete self-build robots
* Introduces key techniques in electronics, programming and construction - for
robust robots that work first time
* Illustrations, close-up photographs and a lively, readable text make this a
fun and informative guide for novice and expericenced robot builders
Table of Contents
Introduction: Making a Robot 1
Robot Behaviour 9
Robot Mechanics 25
Robot Electronics 53
PICs in Control 105
PIC Programming 133
Projects 165
The Scooter 166
The Android 209
A robotic toy 246
The Quester 258
The gantry 297
Index 364
Product Details
* ISBN: 0750665564
* ISBN-13: 9780750665568
* Format: Paperback, 384pp
* Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
* Pub. Date: September 2007
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