The Robot Builder's Bonanza : 99 Inexpensive Robotics Projects

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This is a wonderful book for any who is beginning robotics. It may be slightly old, but all of the information is still relevent, with the exception of some references to Apple //e's and the like. The author also contributes to Poptronics magazine regularly and he has personally answered questions for me about robotics on the comp.robotics.misc newsgroup. In short, he knows what he is talking about in this book. It's a great refence for circuits and interfacing different logic families (TTL to CMOS, etc.) I'd recommend this to anyone except for advanced roboticists.

I have about 10 robotics books, yet this one is my favorite. This one has complete parts lists for making cool sensors such as a 40 KhZ ultrasonic ranging system, arms and grippers, sound detection etc. Clean diagrams + complete parts lists. This book is very inspiring and will kick the robotics door wide open. Word! Well worth the list price of 18.95

This book is a great book for teenagers or adults who want to build robots. It is definitly a "handbook"

As other reviews have commented, this book has a wealth of information on robotic systems and explained in a way that makes it very available to a beginner but with enough detail for the expert.However, note that the book was published in 1987. There were not any microcontrollers for the hobbiest at the time (the computers quoted in the book are Apple IIe and IBM-PC clones).If you want a good description of sensors and output systems, then this book is excellent, if you want information about programable brains of robots, this book will not satisfy you.

This book was probably fine 12 to 13 years ago. The computers mentioned in the book have been obsolete for years, like the IBM PC, Commodore C64, Apple II, etc. The electronic circuitry is ancient history. The author should update this work.

This books aproach helps you see what you need,and what you are going to finish up with. It slightly out of date, but this really isnt a problem, a transister is still a transister. I highly reccomend this book for all ages.