The Robot Builder's Bonanza

McComb

747 pages, parution le 01/09/2000 (2^eme édition)

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Résumé

This will be a major overhaul of McComb's best-selling Robot Builder's Bonanza to include the latest in servo motor technology, microcontrolled robots, remote control, Lego and other commercial kits. All existing chapters will be revised and the book will include nine new chapters. Pictures and parts list will accompany all projects to provide users with step-by-step instructions for a whole host of robotics ideas.

A major revision of the bestselling "bible" of amateur robotics building---packed with the latest in servo motor technology, microcontrolled robots, remote control, Lego Mindstorms Kits, and other commercial kits.
Gives electronics hobbyists fully illustrated plans for 11 complete Robots, as well as all-new coverage on Robotix-based Robots, Lego Technic-based Robots, Functionoids with Lego Mindstorms, and Location and Motorized Systems with Servo Motors.
Features a pictures and parts list that accompany all projects, and material on using the BASIC Stamp and other microcontrollers.

Contents

Introduction
1 The Robot Experimenter
2 Anatomy of a Robot
3 Tools and Supplies
4 Getting Parts
5 Building Robots of Plastic
6 Building a Basic Wooden Robot Platform
7 Building a Metal Platform
8 Constructing High Tech Robots from Toys
9 Build a Robotix-based Robot
10 Build a Lego Technic-based Robot
11 Building a Functionoid with Lego Mindstorms
12 All About Batteries
14 Locomotion with DC Motors
15 Locomotion with Stepper Motors
16 Locomotion with Servo Motors
17 Build a RoverBot
18 Build a Six-legged Walking Robot
19 Build the HydraBot: Walk 'n Roll!
20 Advanced Locomotion Systems
21 An Overview of Arm Systems
22 Build a Revolute Coordinate Arm
23 Build a Servo Motor-based Robotic Arm
24 Build a Polar Coordinate Arm
25 Experimenting with Gripper Designs
26 Adding the Sense of Touch
27 Fire Detection Systems
28 Robotic Eyes
29 Collision Detection and Avoidance
30 Navigating Through Space
31 Remote Control Systems
(and more)

L'auteur - McComb

Gordon McComb has written over 50 books and a thousand magazine articles and newspaper columns, much of it on science and technology subjects. His writing has appeared in Popular Science, Omni, High Technology, Poptronics, Popular Electronics, Radio-Electronics, Mechanix Illustrated, PC Magazine, and dozens of others. He has been a long-time robot collector and enthusiast, and maintains a well-stocked robot workshop in his southern California home. He currently writes the "Robotics Workshop" column for Poptronics magazine.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	McComb
Parution	01/09/2000
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	747
Format	19 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1125g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071362962
ISBN13	978-0-07-136296-2