Build Your Own Robot!,9781568811024

Build Your Own Robot!

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9781568811024
ISBN10: 1568811020
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2000-03-15
Publisher(s): A. K. Peters
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Summary

This book, a compilation of articles from Karl Lunt's long-running column for Nuts & Volts magazine, is a must-read for all beginner and intermediate-level robotics enthusiasts. Written in a friendly, straightforward manner, it contains entertaining anecdotes as well as practical advice and instruction. The author's stories about his various robotics projects will inspire you to try them yourself; and he shares his tips and code to help you. Possible projects range from transforming a TV remote control into a robot controller to building a robot from a drink cooler. You'll want to build them all; the author's enthusiasm for robotics is contagious!

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
Part 1. Getting Started 1(48)
Inspiration and Implementation
3(6)
Your First 68hc11 Microcontroller
9(10)
Allow Me to Introduce Huey
19(12)
The Basics of Hobby Robotics
31(8)
An Intro to 68hc11 Firmware
39(10)
Part 2. Software 49(60)
My Tiny Forth Compiler
51(10)
A First Look at SBasic
61(10)
Remote Reloads with 811 bug
71(20)
The Ultimate PC Robot Tool
91(8)
Inside the 68hc11
99(10)
Part 3. Electronics 109(106)
Quick and Easy 68hc11 Expansion
111(10)
Introducing the BOTBoard
121(10)
A Simple DC Gearhead Motor Controller
131(8)
A Gel-cell Battery Charger for Cheap
139(8)
Build a Switcher with the MAX642 IC
147(8)
Try This Junk Box Switcher Supply
155(8)
Son of BOTBoard
163(8)
More (and More) LEDs
171(8)
Design of a Simple Line-following Array
179(8)
Stepper Motor Basics
187(8)
A First Look at the 68hc12
195(10)
Check Out This New 68hc12
205(10)
Part 4. Mechanics 215(40)
A Basic Robot Design
217(8)
And Now, Here's Max!
225(10)
Build an Open-frame Robot Body
235(8)
Adding an Encoder to a R/C Servo
243(12)
Part 5. Robotics Projects 255(90)
The Rapid Deployment Maze
257(8)
Build BYRD, a Back Yard Research Drone
265(10)
Rally `Round the `Bot, Boys!
275(10)
The Dead-Reckoning Event
285(10)
Hercules, My Smallest robot
295(8)
My Marble Maze Machine
303(6)
Tackle-bot, a Backyard Explorer
309(10)
Try Your Hand at a Mini-Sumo Robot
319(10)
I Start on a Fire-fighting Robot
329(16)
Part 6. Adventures in Hacking 345(76)
Decoding a TV Remote Control
347(10)
Wiring Up an RF Modem Link
357(8)
A Dirt-Cheap 8051 Development System
365(10)
A Dirt-Cheap 8051 Development System, Part Two
375(8)
Hacking a 68302 Modem Board
383(8)
Hacking a 68302 Modem Board, Part Two
391(8)
The Ready-Set-Go Toy Truck
399(12)
Reworking the GameBoy®
411(10)
Part 7. The 68hc11 421(24)
A Look At the SPI
423(10)
68hc11 Memory Expansion
433(12)
Part 8. Way Cool Robots 445(70)
A Visit to the MIT Campus
447(12)
Designing an Interactive Robot Display
459(8)
Deep-Sea Submersible Robots
467(8)
Cleaning up the Tennis Court
475(10)
Robot Soccer
485(10)
The Extremes of Hobby Robotics
495(8)
A Whole Lot of Robots
503(12)
Part 9. Sidelights 515(44)
The NCC AI-CDROM
517(12)
A Typical(?) SRS Meeting
529(12)
Some Powerful Software Tools
541(18)
Appendix A. Contacts 559(4)
Appendix B. Hobby Servo Mods 563(2)
Appendix C. Web Pages 565(4)
Index 569

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