David Cook: Intermediate Robot Building

Cover: 9781430227540 | Intermediate Robot Building | David Cook | Taschenbuch | Paperback

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Beschreibung

For readers of Robot Building for Beginner (Apress, 2002 and 2009), welcome to the next level. Intermediate Robot Building, Second Edition offers you the kind of real-world knowledge that only renowned author David Cook can offer.

In this book, yoüll learn the value of a robot heartbeat and the purpose of the wavy lines in photocells. Yoüll find out what electronic part you should sand. Yoüll discover how a well-placed switch can help a robot avoid obstacles better than a pair of feelers. And yoüll avoid mistakes that can cause a capacitor to explode.

Want a robot that can 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.

Finally, yoüll find the complete schematics for Roundabout, a room explorer that requires no programming and uses only off-the-shelf electronics. With Roundabout, yoüll use many of the same techniques used by professional robotics engineers, and yoüll experience many of the same challenges and joys they feel when a robot ¿comes to life.¿

Über den Autor

David Cook is an engineering manager at Motorola. He has 20 years of experience as a software developer, creating everything from award-winning computer games to mobile background-check applications for police. Self-taught in electronics and basic mechanics, David explains his years of robot experiences to the average backyard scientist in a comfortable and helpful manner, without scholarly intimidation. David hosts the popular robot site [...].

Zusammenfassung

Want a robot that can 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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Assembling a Modular Robot.- Comparing Two Types of Homemade Motor Couplers and Common Errors to Avoid.- Making a Fixture and Drilling Solid Rods for a Coupler.- Finishing the Solid-Rod Motor Coupler.- Building a Motor Inside a Wheel.- Understanding the Standards and Setup for Electronic Experiments.- Creating a Linear Voltage-Regulated Power Supply.- Making Robot Power Supply Improvements.- Driving Miss Motor.- Driving Mister Motor.- Creating an Infrared Modulated Obstacle, Opponent, and Wall Detector.- Fine-Tuning the Reflector Detector.- Roundabout Robot!.- Test Driving Roundabout.- If I Only Had a Brain.- Building Roundabout's Daughterboard.- Adding the Floor Sensor Module.- Cooking Up Some Robot Stew.

Details

Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	480 S.
ISBN-13:	9781430227540
ISBN-10:	1430227540
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Cook, David
Auflage:	2nd ed.
Hersteller:	Apress Apress L.P.
Maße:	235 x 191 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	David Cook
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.05.2010
Gewicht:	0,888 kg