Books and Software
These are some books that I enjoyed:
| The Robot Builder's Bonanza By: Gordon McComb Its a book that has 99 projects for Lego Mindstorms, Basic Stamp, BasicX, and other Microcontrollers. it has plans to build tons of robots like Minibot, Scooterbot, Roverbot, Pepbot, Robotic Arm, Six-legged robot, and much more. |
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| Robot Builder's Sourcebook By: Gordon McComb It is a great book I think everyone should buy. Robot builder's sourcebook has thousands places were you can buy robot parts like wheels, cameras, single board computers, and so on. On the side of the page it even has tips and tricks on the topic your are on. |
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Robots' Androids, and Animatrons: 12
Incredible Projects You Can Build It is a great book if you like to build exotic robots. some robots in this book are speech-controlled mobile robot, solar-ball robot, underwater bots, walker robots, blimp bots, and much more. |
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Programming Robot Controllers This is a great book that is for Building and programming with PIC Micros. it starts you off with teaching you to program in C. It has tons of projects for PICS. It comes with a free CD-ROM with PIC Micro tools, Datasheets, links, Source code, and more. |
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Build Your Own Combat Robot It is a book that has information on how to build your own combat robot. It has all sorts of stuff like the pros and cons of different weapons, were to fight, were to buy the parts and much more. |
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Building Robot Drive Trains Its a book that has information on different ways on how to make your robot to move. It has every thing from wheels to motor controllers mounting brackets. I recommend that you robot builders get this book |
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123 Robotics Experiments For The Evil Genius Introduces you to robotics, electronics, and programming for robotics. It has really good projects. Some of them are Light-seeking robot, Christmas Decoration, Random Movement Robot and much more. It also comes with a free Basic Stamp 2 Printed circuit board. |
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Build A Remote-Controlled Robot Here is the Step-by-step heavily illustrated plans you need to build a full-sized Remote-controlled robot without any advanced electronic or programming skills. |
This is some software that enjoyed
PIC
Simulator IDE
Author: Vladimir Soso
You can get a trial at
http://www.oshonsoft.com/
The License is $19.00