Cover Image

Robot building for beginners [electronic resource] / David Cook.

Show other versions (5)

"Robot Building for Beginners [2nd ed.] is an update of David Cook's best-selling Robot Building for Beginners. This book continues its aim at teenagers and adults who have an avid interest in science and dream of building household explorers. No formal engineering education is assumed&quo...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Cook, David (David Alan)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : New York : Apress ; Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag, ©2009.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Technology in action series.
Subjects:
Robots > Design and construction > Amateurs' manuals.
Robotics > Amateurs' manuals.
Robotics.
Robots > Design and construction.
Handbooks and manuals.
Table of Contents:
  • Welcome robot inventor!
  • Where to obtain tools and parts
  • Safety
  • Digital multimeter
  • Numbers and units
  • Robot line-following
  • Nine-volt batteries
  • Clips and test leads
  • Resistors
  • LEDs
  • Power on!
  • Solderless prototyping
  • Solderless breadboard setup
  • Variable resistors
  • Comparators
  • Transistor switches
  • DC motors
  • Adding gearhead motors
  • Wheels
  • Coupler
  • Soldering equipment
  • Soldering and connecting
  • The motherboard
  • Body building
  • Launching the line-follower
  • Encore.

Similar Items