Make Your Own Robot

Make Your Own Robot
Author: IglooBooks
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781788106535

Calling all young robot obsessives! Heres your chance to bring your very own robot to life!Make Your Own Robot comes with loads of fun press-out pieces that slot together to make an awesome Robot and includes fascinating facts about Robots as well!

The LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor Activity Book

The LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor Activity Book
Author: Daniele Benedettelli
Publisher: No Starch Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 171850182X

An introduction to the LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor Kit through seven engaging projects. With its amazing assortment of bricks, motors, and smart sensors, the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Robot Inventor set opens the door to a physical-meets-digital world. The LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor Activity Book expands that world into an entire universe of incredibly fun, uniquely interactive robotic creations! Using the Robot Inventor set and a device that can run the companion app, you’ll learn how to build bots beyond your imagination—from a magical monster that gobbles up paper and answers written questions, to a remote-controlled transformer car that you can drive, steer, and shape-shift into a walking humanoid robot at the press of a button. Author and MINDSTORMS master Daniele Benedettelli, a robotics expert, takes a project-based approach as he leads you through an increasingly sophisticated collection of his most captivating robot models, chapter by chapter. Each project features illustrated step-by-step building instructions, as well as detailed explanations on programming your robots through the MINDSTORMS App—no coding experience required. As you build and program an adorable pet turtle, an electric guitar that lets you shred out solos, a fully functional, whiz-bang pinball machine and more, you’ll discover dozens of cool building and programming techniques to apply to your own LEGO creations, from working with gears and motors, to smoothing out sensor measurement errors, storing data in variables and lists, and beyond. By the end of this book, you’ll have all the tools, talent and inspiration you need to invent your own LEGO MINDSTORMS robots.

A Small World

A Small World
Author: Davin Heckman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2008-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822388847

Conceived in the 1960s, Walt Disney’s original plans for his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) outlined a utopian laboratory for domestic technology, where families would live, work, and play in an integrated environment. Like many of his contemporaries, Disney imagined homes that would attend to their inhabitants’ every need, and he regarded the home as a site of unending technological progress. This fixation on “space-age” technology, with its promise of domestic bliss, marked an important mid-twentieth-century shift in understandings of the American home. In A Small World, Davin Heckman considers how domestic technologies that free people to enjoy leisure time in the home have come to be understood as necessary parts of everyday life. Heckman’s narrative stretches from the early-twentieth-century introduction into the home of electric appliances and industrial time-management techniques, through the postwar advent of television and the space-age “house of tomorrow,” to the contemporary automated, networked “smart home.” He considers all these developments in relation to lifestyle and consumer narratives. Building on the tension between agency and control within the walls of homes designed to anticipate and fulfill desires, Heckman engages debates about lifestyle, posthumanism, and rights under the destabilizing influences of consumer technologies, and he considers the utopian and dystopian potential of new media forms. Heckman argues that the achievement of an environment completely attuned to its inhabitants’ specific wants and needs—what he calls the “Perfect Day”—institutionalizes everyday life as the ultimate consumer practice.

Build Your Own Paper Robots

Build Your Own Paper Robots
Author: Julius Perdana
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2009-08-18
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0312573707

Presents projects, instructions, and color templates for fourteen paper robots.

Insectronics

Insectronics
Author: Karl Williams
Publisher: TAB/Electronics
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2003
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780071412414

This complete project book delivers all the step-by-step plans users need to construct their own six-legged, insect-like robot that walks and actually responds to its environment. Using inexpensive off-the-shelf parts hobbyists can "build a better bug" and at the same time have fun honing their knowledge of mechanical construction.

Build a Remote-controlled Robot

Build a Remote-controlled Robot
Author: David R. Shircliff
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2002
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780071385435

Here are all the step-by-step, heavily illustrated plans you need to build a full-sized, remote-controlled robot named Questor--without any advanced electronic or programming skills. It's the perfect way to jump into the fascinating world of robotics and be part of all the excitement!

Working Robots

Working Robots
Author: Fred D'Ignazio
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1982
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Presents an overview of the various kinds of working robots, or intelligent machines, and their growing impact on the economy and society.