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Robot building for beginners

Call Number

  • 629.892 C7712 2009 (CEN)

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Edition

2nd ed.

Publication Information

Berkeley, CA : Apress ; New York : Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag, c2009.

Physical Description

xxxiv, 453 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Summary

Contains illustrated, step-by-step instructions for building a battery-powered robot, covering parts and tools, prototyping, multimeters, motors, soldering, and circuit boards.

Notes

Includes index.

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.

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