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Cook, David (David Alan)

Intermediate robot building / David Cook.

2nd ed.

[Berkeley, Calif.] : Apress ; New York : Springer-Verlag [distributor], ©2010.

xxxii, 447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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A guide to intermediate robot building that covers object and wall detection, energy management, machining, and other topics and includes step-by-step instructions with photographs for building robots.

Technology in action

Technology in action series.

Robotics -- Amateurs' manuals.

Robots -- Design and construction -- Amateurs' manuals.

Handbooks and manuals.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Assembling a modular robot -- Comparing two types of homemade motor couplers and common errors to avoid -- Making a fixture and drilling solid rods for a coupler -- Finishing the solid-rod motor coupler -- Building a motor inside a wheel -- Understanding the standards and setup for electronic experiments -- Creating a linear voltage-regulated power supply -- Making robot power supply improvements -- Driving Miss motor -- Driving Mister motor -- Creating an infrared modulated obstacle, opponent, and wall detector -- Fine-tuning the reflector detector -- Roundabout robot! -- Test driving roundabout -- If I only had a brain -- Building roundabout's daughterboard -- Adding the floor sensor module -- Cooking up some robot stew.

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