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John-David Warren (Author), Josh Adams (Author), Harald Molle (Author)
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Book Description

Publication Date: 25 July 2011 | ISBN-10: 1430231831 | ISBN-13: 978-1430231837

This book will show you how to use your Arduino to control a variety of different robots, while providing step-by-step instructions on the entire robot building process. You'll learn Arduino basics as well as the characteristics of different types of motors used in robotics. You also discover controller methods and failsafe methods, and learn how to apply them to your project. The book starts with basic robots and moves into more complex projects, including a GPS-enabled robot, a robotic lawn mower, a fighting bot, and even a DIY Segway-clone.

  • Introduction to the Arduino and other components needed for robotics 
  • Learn how to build motor controllers
  • Build bots from simple line-following and bump-sensor bots to more complex robots that can mow your lawn, do battle, or even take you for a ride

Please note: the print version of this title is black & white; the eBook is full color.

What you’ll learn

  • Basics of motor-control
  • Basics of PCB design and fabrication
  • R/C control and decoding
  • Autonomous sensor guidance
  • Frame building from various materials
  • Instructions for a variety of robot designs

Who this book is for

Electronics and robotics hobbyists and DIY builders.

Table of Contents

  1. The Basics
  2. Arduino for Robotics
  3. Let’s Get Moving
  4. Linus the Line-Bot
  5. Wally the Wall-Bot
  6. Making PCBs
  7. The Bug-Bot
  8. Explorer-Bot
  9. RoboBoat
  10. Lawn-Bot 400
  11. The Seg-Bot
  12. The Battle-Bot
  13. Alternate Control

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  • Paperback: 601 pages
  • Publisher: APRESS (25 July 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430231831
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430231837
  • Product Dimensions: 19.1 x 3.2 x 23.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 160,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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About the Author

J-D is an electronics hobbyist, builder, and relentlesstinkerer. As a child, he took apart everything he owned to figure out how itworked. Since then he has built many different projects ranging from anelectric fishing pole to a remote-controlled lawn mower, which was featured onthe cover of MAKE magazine in April 2010. Having worked as a builder doingcarpentry, plumbing, and electrical work for 8 years, his knowledge is founded in real world experience rather thantext-book recitation. In addition to building robots and remote controlled toys, he enjoys automating everyday tasks, blinking LEDs, designing and etching PCBs, and lots of random things in between. Much of his time has been spentresearching, building, and testing various motor-controllers to make his botsmove. As a self-proclaimed -poor man's roboticist, he will always try to findthe cheapest way to do something - usually by building it himself. J-D graduated from the University of Alabama in Birminghamwith a degree in Business Management. He currently lives in Birmingham, Alabamawith his beautiful wife Melissa and their growing flock of animals.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good book , but... 19 Jun 2012
By Carlos Carvalho
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Arduino has taken the world of amateur electronics by a storm. Before Arduino, and if you wanted to work with embedded systems, you must have an electronics degree and lots of time (and money) to spare in order to master all the data books, assembling a toolchain, and buy some sort of development system. With Arduino all that changed dramatically, and nowadays, almost everyone with the necessary will can do amazing work in the field.
If you love to tinker with robots you must purchase this book. However, this is not a beginner's book. It requires some prior knowledge in Arduino language (very similar to C) and electronics. Also, some mechanical skill is implied in order to build all the proposed projects. Some of them are quite elaborated as the Segway clone and an autonomous boat guided by GPS. The graphical side of the book is somewhat flawed and this is a shame in an otherwise good book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars arduino robotics book 25 Aug 2012
By Tinker232
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This book is probbebly the most useful and informative book on the arduino platform, with lots of code examples and hardware construction. On a practical level it's a huge thumbs up.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read 22 Sep 2011
By E. Berta - Published on Amazon.com
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It was an interesting read. The three hobbyists go through the robotic designs that they made on the cheap using old scavenged parts. They did an amazing job simplifying concepts to the point anybody with a high school education can understand them. Most of the book is devoted not to the Arduino but to the mechanical engineering parts of making a robot on the cheap. Diverse topics like cutting polystyrene and making homemade PCB's take up most of the book with the Arduino part mostly being a brief description of what the code does. I would recommend the book, but there are things that might annoy some people. It doesn't have much of an in-depth look at the Arudino itself. For their more complicated robots where non-library custom code is needed you will see comments like "If you want to understand this, you must read the Data Sheet of atmega168." These guys seem to own a hardware store of tools and have a warehouse of parts lying around. The use of old scavenged parts is cool, but it does mean you shouldn't expect to be able to reproduce anything exactly like these guys did and expect acquiring parts/tools to be a challenge in and of itself. Also keep in mind that this is a hobbyist book and many of the techniques discussed would fail most design for manufacturability and reliability criterion. It will give you ideas on going about making your own hobby robots on the cheap but don't expect your pooling solder connections to withstand the test of time or be easy to debug when things don't work the first time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Arduino Robotics 18 Aug 2011
By Chas Venter - Published on Amazon.com
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This is a cracker of a book and an essential cornerstone for anyone who has recently started tinkering with robotics, or is thinking of doing so. It goes way beyond the title to cover a multitude of disciplines required to undertake and complete the projects in the book, and in the process imparts valuable knowledge to the reader.

The authors have used a solid foundation to describe the basic electric and electronic theory in a simple and straight forward way, making the book both easy to read and understand. The electronics world has many pitfalls where duplicate terminology abounds and the authors have clearly described these situations which certainly would help a novice understand the ambiguity created when terms like negative, ground, sink, VSS and cathode all refer to the same thing. The visual depiction of both electronic component symbols and actual components makes this book an invaluable reference.

The versatility of the Arduino becomes evident when the reader sees how easily the Arduino interfaces with each of the projects. The Arduino is programmed via an Integrated Development Environment using code sketches which describe the operational steps the Arduino will execute at the robotic level. The basic variables, functions and procedures of the coding language are described along with sketch examples.

A refreshing aspect to this book is how the authors have used parts from obsolete or broken equipment for the robotic sensors and drive mechanisms as opposed to sourcing expensive, new parts and components for the construction of the projects.

The hands-on nature of the bot projects show numerous photographs of the bots during their construction, providing the reader with a lot more than just a plain old diagram or blueprint.

A worthy book.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellently Teaches Arduino, Robotics & Many Hacker Skills 28 July 2011
By Ira Laefsky - Published on Amazon.com
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If all this excellent book did was to provide careful, graduated instruction in robotics and the necessary Arduino skills to complete the
transition from a line-following or wall hugging robot to advanced projects like a workhorse lawnbot and a do-it yourself Segway-clone it would be worth many times the cover price. But, with practical well-illustrated instruction it also provides the physical computing enthusiast with the background they need in sensors and actuators (like accelerometers, H-Bridge Motor Controllers and Arduino Interfacing of DC Servo and Stepper Motors) to complete many advanced projects of all kinds with the Arduino and a variety of embedded processors. Addtional Hackerspace skills such as use of a Dremel Tool, PCB layout with Eagle Cad and homebrew PCB construction round out the skills to complete a wide variety of Electronic and Mechatronic projects.

So, whether your aim is to build personal robotic projects in the Hackerspace, or in K-12 STEM Education and you wish to use the Open Source
easy to implement Arduino Platform, or you need a range of hardware, software and workshop skills to complete your own dream project this book is an excellent and necessary part of your library.

--Ira Laefsky, MSE/MBA
Technology Researcher, Consultant & Hackerspace Participant at Philly's Hive 76
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