Robot Building for Beginners, Third Edition
CHAPTER 12 ■ SOLDERLESS PROTOTYPING Look for smooth movement, clean edges, and grips that feel comfortable in your hands. Hold t ...
CHAPTER 23 ■ THE MOTHERBOARD Your meter may give slightly different readings, but there should be a noticeable change from the r ...
CHAPTER 12 ■ SOLDERLESS PROTOTYPING Smooth, long, slim, needle-nose pliers are good for removing flat jumper wire from a solderl ...
CHAPTER 24 Body Building A robot’s body provides a framework to which you can attach various components and circuit boards. The ...
CHAPTER 12 ■ SOLDERLESS PROTOTYPING Making The Connection With solderless breadboards, you’ve got a wonderful technology for des ...
CHAPTER 24 ■ BODY BUILDING When you have a sense of the weight requirements and dimensions, the robot body’s characteristics are ...
CHAPTER 13 ■ Chapter 13: Solderless Breadboard Setup In this chapter, you’ll prepare an 840 tie-point solderless breadboard for ...
CHAPTER 24 ■ BODY BUILDING Origami Helper—Bending Paper Before Bending Metal Here’s a trick that works well for brackets, cowls, ...
CHAPTER 13 ■ SOLDERLESS BREADBOARD SETUP Obtaining 9 V Battery Snap Connectors Although you could attach the battery to the brea ...
CHAPTER 13 ■ SOLDERLESS BREADBOARD SETUP Because only a short amount of the plastic insulation is already stripped off of the en ...
CHAPTER 24 ■ BODY BUILDING Printing in 3D A revolutionary way of hobbyist prototyping is to design a robot body in a 3D CAD (thr ...
CHAPTER 13 ■ SOLDERLESS BREADBOARD SETUP I’m aware of a couple of switches with solderless breadboard dimensions (see Figure 13- ...
CHAPTER 24 ■ BODY BUILDING At some point, the motors and sensors for Wavy were serendipitously sitting almost in perfect robot p ...
CHAPTER 13 ■ SOLDERLESS BREADBOARD SETUP Adding a Power Switch to the Breadboard You want to connect the negative (black) wire d ...
CHAPTER 24 ■ BODY BUILDING ■ Note At this point in the instructions, you may be a little irritated with me if you finished solde ...
CHAPTER 13 ■ SOLDERLESS BREADBOARD SETUP When the switch actuator is slid left, positive power is connected. When the switch act ...
CHAPTER 24 ■ BODY BUILDING Create the exact motor profile in a drawing program. Or, use the Hsiang Neng motor label drawings, w ...
CHAPTER 13 ■ SOLDERLESS BREADBOARD SETUP To determine if the top rows are properly connected to the battery’s power, use a wire ...
CHAPTER 24 ■ BODY BUILDING Place the motor shaft against the inner edge of the side lip to get the motor shaft as low to the gro ...
CHAPTER 24 ■ BODY BUILDING Obtain an aluminum-oxide grinding-stone accessory for your variable-speed rotary tool (see Figure 24- ...
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