ROBOTICS BOOKS COLLECTION
Mint Condition, A First-Class Collection For The Robot Hobbyist
Robot Builder's Bonanza
Author: Gordon McComb
Build your own robots using the hands-on information contained in this guide. The book explains the essential hardware, circuits, and brains and contains easy-to-follow, step-by-step plans for low-cost, cool robotics projects. Robot Builder's Bonanza, Fifth Edition, includes more than 24 new projects for hobbyists of all ages and skill levels. The projects are modular and can be combined to create a variety of highly intelligent and workable custom robots.
- Wire up robotics circuits from common electronic components
- Get up and running building your own robots
- Attach motors, wheels, legs, arms, and grippers
- Make your robots walk, talk, and obey commands
- Build brains from Arduino, BBC Micro:bit, Raspberry Pi, and other microcontrollers
- Incorporate touch, proximity, navigation, and environmental sensors
- Operate your 'bot via remote control
- Generate sound and interpret visual feedback
- Construct advanced robots that can see light and follow pre-drawn paths!
Build Your Own Humanoid Robots
Author: Karl Williams
This unique guide to sophisticated robotics projects brings humanoid robot construction home to the hobbyist. Written by a well-known figure in the robotics community, Build Your Own Humanoid Robots provides step-by-step directions for 6 exciting projects, each costing less than $300. Together, they form the essential ingredients for making your own humanoid robot.
- Teleoperate anthropomorphic robotic arms and hands
- Human / Robotic Interface controls
- Bipedal humanoid walking robot
- Biotronic amplifier
- Human voice recognition robot control system
- Humanoid head and facial expressions
Amphibionics
Author: Karl Williams
This book leads you step-by-step through four amazing projects which, when completed, will leave you as master of a gang of robot reptiles that jump, slither, walk, swim, and respond to their environment!Packed with insight and a wealth of informative illustrations, Amphibionics show you how to build your own snake, frog, crocodile, and turtle. It focuses on the construction of each robot in detail, and then explores the world of slithering, jumping, swimming, and walking robots along with the artificial intelligence needed to make these movements happen.
- All you need for mechanical construction, programming, locomotion, remote control, and customization
- Teaches electronics, PIC programming, artificial intelligence, software, motor control, and wireless data linking.
- Build your own customizable remote control using inexpensive transmitter and receiver modules
- Add your own touches, and evolve each robot further to make it unique
- Amazingly inexpensive to build
Robot Building For Beginners
Author: David Cook
Robot Building for Beginners, Second Edition continues on the tradition and the sales success of original first edition. Written by David Cook, this book will get any hobbyist - from alpha geek to consumer hobbyist and explorer - started in building their own Robot.
- This best selling book on creating a robot from common parts is now in its third edition.
- In Robot Building for Beginners, Third Edition, any motivated person can be taught the basics so that they will learn to build a robot the size of a lunch box to autonomously walk.
- Along the way you will learn the basics of wiring, electronics, mechanics and tooling so that you have the necessary skills to create more and more advanced robots.
- Finally you will learn an optional bit about 3D printing, as some of the parts can be 3D printed.
Intermediate Robot Building
Author: David Cook
Explore rooms, follow lines, or battle opponents in mini-sumo. This book presents step-by-step instructions and circuit and part descriptions so that you can build the robot featured in the book or apply the modules to your own robot designs.
- How to build a robot from scratch
- Digital electronics and moderate machining
- How to use and integrate modern modules useful to all robots: power supplies, motor couplers, motor drivers, opponent and obstacle detectors, and floor sensors.
- How to embrace and extend the base robot design
- How to use Roundabout, which operates with off-the-shelf brains, so that no programming is required
- How the additions of a microcontroller, configuration switches, and even a music module all come together as a final two-tier automaton showing a versatile Robot who is seemingly the master of its domain.
- This book is aimed at intermediate builders: adults, college students, and advanced high school students. It requires background experience in electronics, at least to the extent covered by Robot Building for Beginners.
- The book is referenced in a number of high school and college courses.
Insectronics
Author: Karl Williams
All the step-by-step plans you need to construct your own six-legged insect-like robot that walks and actually responds to its environment. Using inexpensive off-the-shelf parts hobbyists can build a better bug and at the same time have loads of fun honing their knowledge of mechanical construction, programming, microcontroller use, and artificial intelligence.
- Explains PIC programming, use of sensors, and robot intelligence
- Details tools &materials
- Obstacle avoidance, sonar room mapping, finding the best route, and maze solving
- Covers coordinating the servo motors for walking, monitoring infrared and sonar sensors, and controlling the output of sound and light emitting diodes
- A chapter on robotic grippers
- How to implement radio remote control to operate the robot up to 1 mile away
- Give your robot unique personalized features
Build Your Own All-Terrain Robot
Authors: Brad Graham & Kathy McGowan
The use of video-controlled technology has sparked a growing interest in the areas of research, space, archeology, deep-sea exploration, and the military. Changes in the technology have made the creation of an all-terrain, video controlled robot accessible to even the amateur hobbyist. This book is appealing to hobbyists and professionals alike.
- Navigate outdoor terrains
- Send live colour video & audio back to base station
- Interact with other "life forms"
- Professional applications
- Remote control and autonomous operation
