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In this section we cover computer hardware and software, in addition to
electronics. Just follow the steps in one of our excellent introductory
books and you'll have your robot running in no time.
Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius gives you:
* Illustrated instructions and plans for amazing pre-tested projects
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With lots of photos and step-by-step explanations, this book will have you connecting electronic components in no time! In fact, it includes fun ideas for great projects you can build in 30 minutes or less. You'll be amazed! Then you can tackle cool robot projects that will amaze your friends! (The book gives you lots to choose from.)
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Electronics for Dummies covers: Students will find this a great reference and supplement to the typical dry, dull textbook. So whether you just want to bone up on electronics or want to get things hooked up, souped up, or fixed up; whether you're interested in fixing old electronic equipment, understanding guitar fuzz amps, or tinkering with robots; Electronics For Dummies is your quick connection to the stuff you need to know.
Author Myke Predko demonstrates how robot controllers are programmed using
the versatile Microchip PICmicro Microcontroller. The focus of the book is on the least
understood aspect of robot design; integrating multiple sensors, peripherals and software
that will work cooperatively and allow for a simple high-level control application. To
explain the concepts presented in the book, Predko uses off-the-shelf parts and a C
programming language compiler that is included on the CD-ROM. This book is filled with
over 170 illustrations. * How to transport the sample interface and control application codes presented in the
book to other microcontrollers The CD-ROM includes The "Robot DNA" series has become an absolutely essential addition to every amateur roboticist's bookshelf. Start your collection today with Programming Robot Controllers.
* Illustrated instructions and plans for amazing pre-tested projects
advanced enough for sophisticated electronics enthusiasts but described in sufficient
detail to be built easily by newcomers This book equips you with complete plans, instructions, parts lists, and
sources for these wonderful projects:
PIC Microcontroller Project Book gives you hands-on directions for putting
PIC chips with up to 8K of memory to work.
Starting with simple projects and experiments, this book leads you gradually
into sophisticated programming techniques. You need absolutely no
programming experience to get started. John Iovine coaches you through every
single step. Written with the beginner in mind, PIC Microcontroller Project
Book gives you A-B-C guidance on how to: Written with the beginner in mind, this project-oriented guide gives you twelve complete projects, including: add sensing abilities to robots, build decision-making neural and "fuzzy logic" functions into your projects, convert any analog signal to digital, deliver messages on a LCD, synthesize human speech, control DC motors, stepper motors, and servos, read resistive sensors for robotics applications, build a frequency generator, make a DTMF phone number logger and distinct ring detector and router, build a digital oscilloscope, and home automation using X-10 communications. The PIC microcontroller is enormously popular both in the U.S. and abroad. The first edition of this book was a tremendous success because of that. However, since the book was first published, the electronics hobbyist market has become more sophisticated. This new edition is fully updated and revised.
In this heavily-illustrated resource, author John Iovine provides plans and complete parts lists for 11 easy-to-build robots each with a PICMicro brain. The expertly written coverage of the PIC Basic Computer makes programming a snap -- and lots of fun. Build your own robots with step-by-step directions for several complete
projects including: With PIC Robotics, you can build robots that--
This new edition moves you briskly from electronic foundations through BASIC Stamp "Boot Camps" and an intelligent traffic signal simulation to build a robotic bug with whisker sensors, a time/temperature display, and a data-logging thermometer. Written by Scott Edwards, the original author of the widely read "Stamp Applications" column for Nuts & Volts magazine, this easy-to-follow reference includes a CD that gives you all the IBM- compatible software tools necessary to begin developing Stamp applications. Programming and Customizing the BASIC Stamp Computer offers you: New in this edition:
Beginning with basic hacks, tools, and techniques for those who may not have a background in electronics, the book covers the tools of the hardware hacking trade and basic soldering techniques. Clear step-by-step instructions allow even those with no formal electronics or hardware engineering skills to hack real hardware in very clever ways. This book provides detailed instructions and materials lists for 15 projects. Each is rated in terms of cost to build, level of difficulty, and time needed (usually a weekend, although a few will take several weekends). Projects range from those that are truly useful to some things you may have never thought to do, but which are really cool, such as: * Building your own arcade game Perhaps you're an electronics hobbyist who likes to learn by doing. Maybe you hack software and want to see how the other half lives. Or, maybe you've never hacked at all, but you'd like to get started quickly with some projects that do something interesting from the start. If you're any of these, then Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks will indulge your inner mad scientist.
Sensors for Mobile Robots is the most thorough examination of every imaginable technique for sensing the world in which your robot functions. Touch sensors, radar, laser, gyroscopic, ultrasonic, and infrared sensing devices plus proximity sensing, triangulation ranging, electromagnetic sensors, magnetic compasses, gyroscopes, collision avoidance, and sensors for specific applications are just some of the more ordinary types that the author covers in the book's 520 pages. Many other ingenious methods are also explained.
Each of the circuits in this book connects directly to your parallel printer port! Each also comes complete with a circuit diagram and listings for control software written in Pascal, C, and BASIC. The accompanying disk contains full source code in all the languages. Controlling the World With Your PC covers a vast array of interface topics, from stepper motors to alarm systems to analog interface. The text is clear and straightforward with useful discussion of the circuit and the accompanying program. The programs are well documented so only basic knowledge is necessary to get through the examples.
The author offers numerous tips and techniques from his years of experience that guarantee a smooth and painless PC board design and fabrication process using his step by step approach. Numerous illustrations and photographs demonstrate each step of the process.
This completely new edition responds to the breakneck pace of change in electronics with totally rewritten chapters on microcomputers and microprocessors, substantially revised chapters on digital electronics, op-amps and precision design, and on construction techniques. Every table has been revised, and many new ones have been added.
Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics has become the standard introduction to the essentials of electricity and electronics. Now the author has enhanced his best-selling guide with new chapters on cutting-edge technologies. The Third Edition retains the classic user-friendly, self-study approach while bringing you practical new information on wireless technologies, computers, and the Internet. Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics provides uniquely thorough coverage, ranging from AC and DC concepts and circuits to semiconductors and integrated circuits. Assuming no prior background in electronics, it features a conversational writing style, quizzes, self-tests, and more than 500 illustrations that make learning easier and livelier. In virtually no time at all you'll be able to: Make simple current-voltage-resistance determinations; Design basic electronic circuits; Optimize circuit efficiency; and much more! The book also provides new guidance to cellular communications, transducers, wireless LANs and security systems, microprocessors, and cyberspace. Whether you're a hobbyist, a technician, a professional in an electronics-oriented firm, a student of electronics, or a novice, the new edition of Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics will be an essential reference you'll turn to again and again.
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Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius makes it fun to achieve genuine
mastery, one simple lesson at a time. What's more, when you're done, you'll
have five complete projects to show for your efforts! The book features 57
lessons that build on each other and add up to projects that you'll be proud
to display, play with, and put to practical use. You don't need to know
anything about electronics to begin building: 
Electronic
sensor circuits convert light, temperature, sound, and other signals into a
form that can be processed by electronic circuits. Learn about solar cells,
photoresistors, thermistors, and magnet switches. Then build circuits that
respond to heat, pressure, light, and more. This Engineer's Mini Notebook is
a compilation of three of Forrest Mims's notebooks: Sensor Projects; Solar
Cell Projects; and Magnet & Magnet Sensor Projects.
Whether you're a do-it-yourselfer, hobbyist, or student, this book will
turn you on to real-world electronics. It quickly covers the essentials, and
then focuses on the how-to instead of theory.
Programming
Robot Controllers is the second volume in the new "Robot DNA" series by
McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics.
Electronics fans have waited a long time for this book. Not since 1983 has
author Bob Iannini published a collection of his amazing projects -- all of them fun,
easy, and inexpensive to make at home and, best of all, seriously exciting and impressive!
Iannini takes the stuff of science fiction and science future and brings it down to size
for the home hobbyist. Full of easy-to-follow plans and clear diagrams and schematics, Electronic
Gadgets for the Evil Genius gives you:
What
can you do with PIC microcontrollers? Practically anything--from creating
"photovore" robots that hunt light to feed their solar cells to making
toasters announce, "Your toast is ready!" These low-cost (around 7 bucks)
computers-on-a-chip let electronics designers and
hobbyists add intelligence, responsiveness, and functions that mimic big
computers to any electronic product or project.
Here's everything the robotics hobbyist needs to harness the power
of the PIC Microcontroller! Over the past 5 years, dramatic improvements in technologies
and significant cost reductions in 8-bit microprocessors have spawned a renaissance in
robot building. PIC Robotics, from popular electronics hobbies author John
Iovine, shows amateur (and professional) enthusiasts how to get in on the fun, using the
power of Microchip's versatile 8-bit PIC microprocessor family to build sophisticated
robots more cheaply and easily than you thought possible. 
Programming and Customizing the Basic
Stamp, Second Edition gives you a comprehensive tutorial on the easy-to-use BASIC Stamp single-board computer, which runs a PIC
Microcontroller, and doesn't require you to do any assembly language programming.
The
Microcontroller Idea Book is a how-to for the 8052-BASIC single-chip
computer. Practical designs for use in data loggers, controllers, and other
small-computer applications. How to use sensors, relays, displays, clocks/calendars,
keypads, wireless links, and more. Complete with schematics, example programs and
design theory. Use the described development system for easy, inexpensive testing and
EPROM programming.
From How to Hack a Toaster to building Cubicle Intrusion Detection Systems, Hardware
Hacking Projects for Geeks offers an array of inventive customized electronics projects
for the geek who can't help looking at a gadget and wondering how it might be
"upgraded."
This is an unprecedented reference work
that compiles into one convenient source everything the student, hobbyist, or experienced
developmental engineer needs to know about the many sensing technologies for robotics.
Presenting the material in a manner which often parallels strategies of robotic
development, H.R. Everett provides a comprehensive yet easy-to-understand explanation of
the theory of sensor operation. A review of both prototype and commercially available
systems is presented and then followed up with practical lessons learned from actual use
on various robotic vehicles. This book is a must-have for everyone interested in robotics.
Controlling
the World With Your PC is not a manual from which you will learn the techniques of
world conquest and domination, as the title suggests, rather, it's a guide to interfacing
your PC to other devices and circuits.
Printed
circuit boards are ubiquitous in today's electronic devices, and engineers
are commonly faced with the need for small quantities of a certain board
design for prototyping, testing, or construction of a small number of
devices. Fabricating Printed Circuit Boards Gives a complete
overview of the printed circuit board design process. It describes how to
produce printed circuit boards in small quantities, with an emphasis on
safety. 
This is the
thoroughly revised and updated Second Edition of the hugely successful The Art of
Electronics. Widely accepted as the single, authoritative text and reference on
electronic circuit design, both analog and digital, this best selling book and has been
translated into eight languages. The book revolutionized the teaching of electronics by
emphasizing the methods actually used by circuit designers--a combination of some basic
laws, rules of thumb, and a large bag of tricks. The result is a largely nonmathematical
treatment that encourages intuition, brain storming, and simplified calculations of
circuit values and performance.
In
the field of introductory electronics, Stan Gibilisco wrote the book. This
gifted teacher/author is one of the most trusted names in popular
electronics and now he has updated his best-selling guide to reach audiences
interested in the latest electronic technologies. Like its predecessor, the
Fourth Edition of Teach Yourself Electricity
and Electronics is a complete self-teaching tool. Because it assumes no prior
technical knowledge, true novices can use it at their own pace to master the fundamentals
of electronics for work or hobbies. Gibilisco's proven blend of clear descriptions,
extensive illustrations, and numerous self-tests make this a true "stand-alone"
guide.