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"Create a simple robot and lay down the foundations for future ones" I am providing this feedback in the hope of guiding potential buyer's expectations about the goals of this book. After going through this book you will have: 1. a simple reflex robot (reflex in the sense that it reacts "naively' to detection of light). This is neither good nor bad, again it depends on your expectations. No coding will be involved and the robot cannot do much else 2. you will learn Ohms law and how it is applied in building this robot's circuit 3. you will learn about basic building blocks and how they work, diodes, resistors, comparators, photoresistors, etc 4. you will accumulate a collection of tools and materials that you can reuse 5. you will learn how to do soldering and machining of some parts In my opinion this is a book for the long haul. If you want to get up and running really fast the author himself suggest going the Lego route or with other kits that you assemble together quickly. If you want to learn the basic principles and collect the necessary tools to build parts and/or whole robots it is a good place to start. Bare in mind it is a START. If you are serious about robot building you will ultimately gravitate in building parts and circuits based on skills and knowledge the author describes. The book takes you through a lot of basic skills and knowledge and it has a lot of illustrations, actually multiple per step, which I found invaluable. So no fancy, intelligent robot here, just laying some serious foundations. Make sure that you visit the author's website and you look for the "sandwich" the robot being built. It will give you a lot of helpful information such as a shopping list for all the tools, components needed. One big concern is the cost involved. When all the tools and materials are purchased, we are talking about several hundred dollars. Yes most of them will be for materials and tools that you will use in other projects, if you are seriously committed in sticking with this as a hobby. If you are not, take the Lego or other kit route. I hope this helps and I personally found quite rewarding being able to build the different parts myself and the robot. I already have David's intermediate book and I look forward to the next level of complexity. "Great for more than just robots!" I have been using First Robotics, VEX, and BotBall bots for quite a while now. Someone gave me this book for Christmas and I have to say that it is an amazing primer for anyone getting into robotics/electronics. Although it pertains to smaller robots, the information can be easily translated to any size. The authors tips and instructions are clear and dead on. I particularly appreciated the electronics tips on how to use a multimeter. I cannot count how many times a student of mine have popped a multimeter because they were taking a resistance reading with the circuit activated. That is covered in the book though. The author also suggests places to buy equipment and the book comes with a PCB (printed circuit board) which dramatically cuts down on the difficulty of the build and results in a clean awesome looking bot. "Excelent" I had a lot of fun and learned a lot following this book and the quest of getting parts and building a robot. "Great Book" This book covers the fundamental in robotics. I highly recommends this book to anyone trying to learn robotics at an amateur level. "Excellent Practical Advice" I went to school for Electrical Engineer. Unfortunately, most of the education is theoretical and made for cubical dwellers. This book is a perfect companion for those wanting to get their hands dirty; which comes in handy if one's technician assistant takes the day off. I also found this to be a great book to share with my 10 year old. I would not expect kids to enjoy reading it; however, it helped explain the details in ways he would understand as we built the robot.
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What our customer's say! "Great for beginners", The book does a great job of pacing the material and explaining things so that a beginner can understand. It goes through the parts and components you will need to be able to understand and identify in order to be able to build a robot then walks you through step by step on how to build your first line following robot. David also does a great job of giving the reader information on tools and components as well as providing good information on how/where to obtain parts. "Fun Stuff!", I'm taking a mechatronics and robotics class at Humboldt State University. We were allowed to choose our own project for the semester. I bought this book back in January and read through (devoured) it in just a couple nights. It takes you step by step through a robot building project in a very logical and detailed manner. Some of the material is very basic and was review for me, but I read through it anyway. Mr. Cook explains every single component and what its function is in the 'bot. He even goes so far as to suggest suppliers and what their prices were at the time of writing. His thorough explanations and descriptions will be a recipe to be closely followed by somebody who is just getting their feet wet in assembling "stuff" (an entire chapter dedicated just to soldering!). For more seasoned mechanics and tinkerers, he provides room for artistic license and a great foundation for a really cool project. The semester is drawing to a close, my 'bot mother board is done and functioning, and I'm now building the body/chassis. Though I'm not using the same "sandwich" box design Mr. Cook did, I owe him a debt of gratitude for writing such a wonderfully insightful and thorough book. Without the electronic "guts" it would just be another push toy. "Just what I've been looking for!", I looked around quite a bit trying to find a robot building book that would take my 14 yr old through the process in a way he could understand. David Cook delivered perfectly. Every other book I looked at seemed either too childish, or alternately, assumed a solid background in electronics. Robot Building for Beginners, like Baby Bear's porridge, is just right! I studied philosophy in college, so can offer my son no help in building robots. I've seen this book described as a swimming pool that's 5'x5' but 25' deep. That's pretty apt. I like the extensive chapter on components - what they are, how they work - neither my son nor I knew a resistor from a diode before. Also an entire chapter on safety was great from the concerned parent perspective. The book is long, but covers a lot of ground with very little fluff. In 10 days my son had read up to the chapter where you start building your robot - he had absorbed a ton of information, built a few basic circuits and tested/troubleshot them with a multimeter. Now he's just waiting impatiently for me to set him up with the necessary components to start building (actually he's started scavenging components from dead/unused electronics he comes across; and I'm starting to fear for my DVD player). I don't think you'll find a better starting point for a novice. "Excellent Beginners Book On Building Robotics & Electronic Construction & Prototyping", David Cook, an engineering manager at Motorola with 20 years of experience in software development, has written the ultimate beginner's book on the construction and troubleshooting of robots and all types of electronic construction. It is designed for the absolute beginner to practical electronic and basic mechanical construction by someone who like myself received an overly theoretical education. It can certainly also be mastered by interested high school student or teenage enthusiast. All phases of electronic construction and troubleshooting as well as a variety of mechanical and shop techniques are described and exquisitely illustrated by high-quality (black and white) photographs. While the book culminates and supplies all necessary information to construct a simple but fully autonomous line-following robot, I believe that the successfully achieved important objective of the book is to develop the range of electronic and mechanical skills necessary for further advancement in any robotic project and almost any electronic construction endeavor. To many books in this exciting and rapidly expanding field either provide step by step details of the construction of particular projects, or are largely theoretical in content. By contrast, this clear and well illustrated beginners guide develops the skills and basic theoretical understanding of electronic construction and mechanics to achieve initial success and grow in knowledge with any robotic project and in a variety of hobbyist electronics. I would recommend it to any aspiring beginner in robotics and electronic construction as the basis mastering an exciting hobby or practical engineering pursuit. --Ira Laefsky MSE/MBA IT Consultant "Robot Building", I was surprised when my 11 year old started reading the book and liked it. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but if you have a budding mad scientist interested in robots, I would recommend the book. We got this book because we joined a robotics club. A teacher researched various books and decided this book was the best book for the club. 
Read this reviews before You buy... "book is great", this book will seriously tell you how to build a robot they should submit this to building robots and replace the other one because it is really easy to understand what he is saying in this book. he even goes into depth on like the most obvious details. i am a slow reader have a small vocabulary and this book was just great. although sometimes i did have to reread. "Excellent book", This is an excellent book for a beginner. I'm a software engineer, didn't have any knowledge about robotics prior to this book, and yesterday I finished building my first robot - Kobi (Jacob, which is a rather biblical name but in hebrew also literally means 'will follow'... as it follows lines of course). Took me about 1-1.5 months to read, gather parts and build. I live in Israel and didn't want to order all the parts from the web (wanted to get it fast), so I bought what I found in the stores, improvised a little bit (just a bit) and built Kobi. The book takes you through the electronics, including all the parts and tools to use, and the body building (quite a simple body - adjusting a container). Well written, amusing, very readable, lots of pictures to show the reader how things are supposed to be. This is my first robotics book. I chose it after reading the excellent reviews on it in Amazon, now I'm adding mine. This book greatly enhanced my knowledge (and practice) in robotics, and I already ordered some more robotics books to learn more. "Beginning Electronics", This is an excellent book. It shows you with detailed pictures and explanations exactly how to use electonic components. Very easy to read and understand. I use it as much my son. "Excellent Book, Highly Recommended", This is an author who has the beginner in mind. Everything is well explained, no guess work. Pictures and diagrams everywhere. Extremely useful especially if you have low experience in hand work like if you're just out of college. I learns alot about tools, materials, and construction tips that I did not even hear about before. It's not only useful for getting started in robotics but also in electronics. I have an engineering education so I don't know if the author's claim of the information being self contained and no background necessary is right, but in any case, you will get a hell lots of information. "Just what I was looking for!", I'm just starting into robotics and have no knowlwdge of electronics. I was thus looking for a beginners book needed to get started. I found that this book "Robot Building for Beginners" to be the best book to start with, even better than the "Robot Building for Dummies". Having got a good start with "Robot Building for Beginners" I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series for more advanced topics. |
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