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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots
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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition

by Gareth Branwyn


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Finally, a robots book for people who don't know the first thing about robotics! Absolute Beginner's Guide to Robots is well-written, inviting, and action-packed, with engaging ideas and fascinating factoids about robots and robot-related arts and sciences. You are led gently into the intimidating world of robotics, but nearly 400 pages later, you emerge with a respectable knowledge of robot history, the major fields and "schools" of robotics today, and the basic skills and resources needed to create hobby robots. By the end of the book, you will be the proud owner of three bots, the first two of which demonstrate key robotic principles. The third is a programmable/expandable robot, which serves as a platform for future experimentation. And best of all, these robots are built with simple to get and inexpensive parts - many of which you already have around the house!

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  • Title Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots
  • Author Gareth Branwyn
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Que, Indiana
  • Date September 29, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780789729712 / 0789729717
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 7.38 x 0.89 in (23.06 x 18.75 x 2.26 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Robots, Robotics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003103655
  • Dewey Decimal Code 629.892

About the author

Gareth Branwyn is a well-known technology journalist and self-proclaimed "reluctant geek." He is writer and editor for Wired, ID and Esquire magazines, and has written many books on technology topics, including, Mosaic Quick Tour (the first World Wide Web book ever published), Jargon Watch: A Pocket Dictionary for the Jitterati, Jamming the Media: A Citizen's Guide, and The Happy Mutant Handbook. He also has contributed material to many technology books, including Que's Catalog of Tomorrow and The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. He is Editor-in-chief, co-owner, and site designer of Street Tech (www.streettech.com). Gareth also contributed lyrics to Billy Idol's 1993 album Cyberpunk.

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