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

Book Description

Making Simple Robots is based on one idea: Anybody can build a robot! That includes kids, English majors, school teachers, and grandparents. 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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Robots Made from Interesting Materials
Chapter 2. Robots That Get Around
Chapter 3. Unevolved Robots
Chapter 4. Robot Friends and Helpers
Chapter 5. Fun, Artsy Robots

中文：

书名：制造简单的机器人：用日常用品探索尖端机器人

制造简单的机器人是基于一个想法：任何人都可以制造机器人！这包括孩子、英语专业的学生、学校老师和祖父母。如果你能将一张扁平的纸编织、缝制或折叠成一个盒子，你就可以制造一个没有技术含量的机器人部件。如果你能使用热胶枪，你就可以学会将基本的电子设备焊接到一个对环境做出反应的低技术机器人上。如果你能弄清楚如何在你的智能手机上使用这些应用程序，你就可以学会足够的编程来与一个简单的机器人交流。

用非工程师能理解的语言编写，制造简单机器人帮助初学者超越基本的工艺技能和材料，转向艺术家和发明家正在使用的最新产品和工具。了解如何制作折叠纸张折纸的动画，如何设计用于3D打印的多功能机器人轮腿，或者如何为破布娃娃编程以使其半机械眼眨眼。每个项目都包括循序渐进的说明以及清晰的图表和照片。每一章都提供了修改和扩展项目的建议，这样您就可以随着技能的增长一次又一次地回到项目中。

目录表

第一章：有趣材料制成的机器人
第二章：四处走动的机器人
第三章：未进化的机器人
第四章机器人的朋友和帮手
第五章：玩得开心，艺术机器人