
Making Simple Robots
Exploring Cutting-Edge Robotics with Everyday Stuff
Publisher: Maker Media, Inc
Release Date: February 2015
Pages: 251
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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.
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 Robots Made from Interesting Materials
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Project: Make Actuated Paper
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Project: Make an Inflatable Robot
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Chapter 2 Robots That Get Around
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Project: Make a Compressible Tensegrity Robot
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Project: Design a Wheel-Leg Hybrid
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Chapter 3 Unevolved Robots
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Project: Make a Swarm of Gliding Vibrobots
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Project: Make a Souped-Up Solar BEAM Wobblebot
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Chapter 4 Robot Friends and Helpers
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Project: Make a Chatbot Program
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Project: Picture Yourself in the Uncanny Valley
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Chapter 5 Fun, Artsy Robots
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Project: Make a littleBits Plotter
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Project: Make FiberBot, an E-Textile Arduino Robot
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