Making Simple Robots: Exploring Cutting-Edge Robotics with Everyday Stuff

Kathy Ceceri

ISBN 10: 1457183633 / ISBN 13: 9781457183638

Published by Make Community, LLC March 2015, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Simple Robots: Exploring Cutting-Edge Robotics with Everyday Stuff
• Publisher: Make Community, LLC March 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1457183633
• ISBN 13: 9781457183638
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Used - Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science

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Synopsis

Making Simple Robots is based on one idea: Anybody can build a robot! That includes kids, school teachers, parents, and non-engineers. If you can knit, sew, or fold a flat piece of paper into a box, you can build a no-tech robotic part. If you can use a hot glue gun, you can learn to solder basic electronics into a low-tech robot that reacts to its environment. And if you can figure out how to use the apps on your smart phone, you can learn enough programming to communicate with a simple robot.

Written in language that non-engineers can understand, Making Simple Robots helps beginners move beyond basic craft skills and materials to the latest products and tools being used by artists and inventors. Find out how to animate folded paper origami, design a versatile robot wheel-leg for 3D printing, or program a rag doll to blink its cyborg eye. Each project includes step-by-step directions as well as clear diagrams and photographs. And every chapter offers suggestions for modifying and expanding the projects, so that you can return to the projects again and again as your skill set grows.

About the Author

Kathy Ceceri is a writer and teaching artist who loves to share hands-on learning activities for kids and adults, with a special focus on STEM/STEAM. In addition to her books, she was a founding editor of the GeekMom blog and top writer at Wired.com's GeekDad blog, and contributed over a dozen projects to the bestselling Geek Dad series of books. Formerly the Homeschooling Expert for About.com, Kathy is the proud mom of a computer game programmer and a filmmaker. Find her @kathyceceri on Twitter, +kathyceceri on G+, the Amazing Robotics page on Facebook, and at her website CraftsForLearning.com.