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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 Robots

Many 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 Makes

Once 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
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 18, 2018
Edition ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1781317003
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1781317006
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.88 x 0.63 x 9.25 inches
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