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          Robot Builder's Cookbook: Build and Design Your Own Robots

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Owen Bishop introduces, through hands-on project work, the mechanics, 

electronics and programming involved in practical robot design-and-build. The 

use of the PIC microcontroller throughout provides a painless introduction to 

programming whilst harnessing the power of a highly popular microcontroller used 

by students and design engineers worldwide.


This is a book for first-time robot builders, advanced builders wanting to know 

more about programming robots and students in Further and Higher Education 

tackling microcontroller-based practical work. They will all find this book a 

unique and exciting source of projects, ideas and techniques, to be combined 

into a wide range of fascinating robots.


* Full step-by-step instructions for 5 complete self-build robots

* Introduces key techniques in electronics, programming and construction - for 

  robust robots that work first time

* Illustrations, close-up photographs and a lively, readable text make this a 

  fun and informative guide for novice and expericenced robot builders


Table of Contents 


Introduction: Making a Robot     1

Robot Behaviour     9

Robot Mechanics     25

Robot Electronics     53

PICs in Control     105

PIC Programming     133

Projects     165

The Scooter     166

The Android     209

A robotic toy     246

The Quester     258

The gantry     297

Index     364 


Product Details


    * ISBN: 0750665564

    * ISBN-13: 9780750665568

    * Format: Paperback, 384pp

    * Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

    * Pub. Date: September 2007


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