Robot Building for Beginners, Third Edition

xxi ■ CONTENTS ■ Chapter 25: Launching the Line-Follower .......................................................... 373 Correcti ...

xxii ■ CONTENTS Resistor Networks .............................................................................................. ...

xxiii ■ CONTENTS Dallas Personal Robotics Group Roborama ....................................................................... ...

xxiv ■ CONTENTS Designing a Robot Body ......................................................................................... ...

xxv About the Author David Cook is the host of Robot Room, having written nearly a hundred articles on the subject of software, ...

xxvii Acknowledgments I would like to acknowledge that it was I who ate the last cupcake. It was not, in fact, the dog. I want t ...

xxix Introduction I wrote this book because I love building robots. I want you to love building robots, too. It took me a while ...

xxx ■ INTRODUCTION The most recent version of the kit is LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3. The prior versions of LEGO MINDSTORMS Robotics Inv ...

CHAPTER 1 Welcome Robot Inventor! You’ve chosen a stimulating and rewarding hobby. It’s more expensive than insect collecting, b ...

CHAPTER 1 ■ WELCOME ROBOT INVENTOR! Figure 1-1 shows a typical homemade robot. This robot is capable of finding opposition robot ...

CHAPTER 1 ■ WELCOME ROBOT INVENTOR! But, all in all, the top choice for robot brains is the microcontroller chip (see Figure 1-2 ...

CHAPTER 1 ■ WELCOME ROBOT INVENTOR! Rechargeable batteries are preferable. Although their initial cost is higher, they’ll save t ...

CHAPTER 1 ■ WELCOME ROBOT INVENTOR! As batteries are used up, they provide less and less power. Unless stabilized, this would re ...

CHAPTER 1 ■ WELCOME ROBOT INVENTOR! Interestingly, solar-powered robots usually don’t have a power switch. Those robots wake up ...

CHAPTER 1 ■ WELCOME ROBOT INVENTOR! Pushbuttons Switches and pushbuttons (see Figure 1-7) are a subset of sensors. They “sense” ...

CHAPTER 1 ■ WELCOME ROBOT INVENTOR! Action and Feedback Robots perform actions coordinated with the processing of sensor informa ...

CHAPTER 1 ■ WELCOME ROBOT INVENTOR! Indicator Lights Lots of tiny lights adorn most robots. LEDs (light-emitting diodes) indicat ...

CHAPTER 1 ■ WELCOME ROBOT INVENTOR! A lot of other stuff is needed, too! Wires, connectors, capacitors, resistors, diodes, and o ...

CHAPTER 1 ■ WELCOME ROBOT INVENTOR! Building Up Because robots are complete entities, a lot of work must be invested before the ...

CHAPTER 1 ■ WELCOME ROBOT INVENTOR! Because the time investment in a single module is small and manageable, it’s easier to finis ...