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The robot builder's bonanza / by McComb, Gordon.(CARDINAL)735631; Predko, Michael.(CARDINAL)643344;

MARCIVE 05/05/10Includes bibliographical references (pages 695-703) and index.The robot experimenter -- Anatomy of a robot -- Structural materials -- Buying parts -- Electronic components -- Tools -- Electronic construction techniques -- Plastic platforms -- Wooden platforms -- Metal platforms -- Hacking toys -- An overview of robot "brains" -- Programming fundamentals -- Computer peripherals -- The BASIC stamp 2 microcontroller -- Remote control systems -- Batteries and robot power supplies -- Principles of robot locomotion -- Choosing the right motor -- Working with DC motors -- Working with stepper motors -- Working with servo motors -- Building a roverbot -- Building a heavy-duty six-legged walking robot -- Advanced robot locomotion systems -- Reaching out with robot arms -- Building a revolute coordinate arm -- Experimenting with gripper designs -- The sense of touch -- Object detection -- Sound input and output -- Robot vision -- Navigation -- Fire detection systems -- Experimenting with tilt and gravity sensors -- Home robots and how not to chew up your furniture -- Robot tasks, operations, and behaviors -- Integrating the blocks -- Failure analysis -- Setting up workshops, demonstrations, and competitions.

Subjects: Robotics.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3

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Arduino workshop : a hands-on introduction with 65 projects / by Boxall, John,1975-author.(CARDINAL)403982;

Getting started -- Exploring the Arduino board and the IDE -- First steps -- Building blocks -- Working with functions -- Numbers, variables, and arithmetic -- Liquid crystal displays -- Expanding your Arduino -- Numeric keypads -- Accepting user input with touchscreens -- Meet the Arduino family -- Motors and movement -- Using GPS with your Arduino -- Wireless data -- Infrared remote control -- Reading RFID tags -- Data buses -- Real-time clocks -- The internet -- Cellular communications.Arduino is a cheap, flexible, open-source microcontroller designed to make it easy for hobbyists to use electronics in their projects. Arduino can be used to develop interactive objects that can take input from buttons and sensors and do things in response like flash LEDs or move. Because hands-on is the name of the game when it comes to playing with Arduino, Arduino Workshop contains 60 projects, carefully integrated and staged in difficulty throughout the book as readers acquire more knowledge and experience. In addition to learning basic electronics, readers learn to create more sophisticated projects like a GPS journey recorder, a graphical digital thermometer, and a precise clock set via satellite. Each chapter builds on previous chapters and step-by-step instructions walk readers through building (and understanding) the various projects. As the book progresses, readers go from creating a blinking light to building an RFID-tag time clock, a motorized tank controlled with a TV remote, and much more.

Subjects: Arduino (Programmable controller);

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Basic electronics / by Haennah, J. H. Jensha,author.;

Introduction to electronic devices -- Semiconductor physics -- Diodes and applications -- Bipolar junction transistors (BJT) -- Field Effect Transistors (FETs) -- Operational amplifiers (Op-Amps) -- Digital electonics basics -- Electronic instruments and measurements -- Communication basics -- Microcontrollers and embedded systemsThis book, Basic Electronics, is designed to provide students and professionals with a clear and structured understanding of fundamental electronic principles.

Subjects: Electronics.; Electrical engineering.;

Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1

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Practical electronics for inventors / by Scherz, Paul,author.(CARDINAL)357193; Monk, Simon,author.(CARDINAL)357194;

Introduction to electronics -- Theory -- Basic electronic circuit components -- Semiconductors -- Optoelectronics -- Sensors -- Hands-on electronics -- Operational amplifiers -- Filters -- Oscillators and timers -- Voltage regulators and power supplies -- Digital electronics -- Microcontrollers -- Programmable logic -- Motors -- Audio electronics -- Modular electronics.Spark your creativity and gain the electronics skills required to transform your innovative ideas into functioning gadgets. This hands-on, updated guide outlines electrical principles and provides thorough, easy-to-follow instructions, schematics, and illustrations. Find out how to select components, safely assemble circuits, perform error tests, and build plug-and-play prototypes.

Subjects: Electronics.;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6

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Robot builder's bonanza / by McComb, Gordon,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1: Art and science of robot making. 1. Become a robot master -- 2. Anatomy of a robot -- 3. The safe and sane guide to robot building -- Part 2: Building robots. 4. Getting parts -- 5. Robot building 101 -- 6. Robots from household stuff -- 7. Robots of wood -- 8. Robots of plastic -- 9. Robots of metal -- 10. Building bots with digital fabrication -- 11. Putting things together -- Part 3: Making your robot move. 12. Batteries and power -- 13. How to move your robot -- 14. Using DC motors -- 15. Using servo motors -- 16. Mounting motors and wheels -- Part 4: Make your first robot. 17. Build robots with wheels -- 18. Build robots with tracks -- 19. Build robots with legs -- 20. Build robotic arms and grippers -- Part 5: Robot electronics. 21. Robot electronics - the basics -- 22. Common electronic components for robotics -- 23. Making circuits -- Part 6: Robot brains. 24. All about robot gray matter -- 25. Using the Arduino -- 26. Using the BBC Micro:bit -- 27. Using the Raspberry Pi -- 28. More microcontrollers for robots -- 29. Interfacing hardware with your microcontroller -- Part 7: Robot sensors. 30. Touch -- 31. Proximity and distance -- 32. Navigation -- 33. Environment -- Part 8: Interacting with your robot. 34. Operating your bot via remote control -- 35. Producing sound -- 36. Visual feedback from your robot -- Part 9: Online robot projects. 37. Make light-seeking robots -- 38. Mark R/C toys into robots -- 39. Make line-following robots -- 40. Make robot arms -- Appendix: RBB support site."The book clearly explains the essential hardware, circuits, and brains and contains easy-to-follow, step-by-step plans for low-cost, cool robotics projects ..."--Provided by publisher. microcontrollers, and remote control systems.

Subjects: Robotics.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The complete idiot's guide to electronics 101 / by Westcott, Sean.(CARDINAL)492735; Westcott, Jean Riescher.(CARDINAL)492736;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index.Part 1: Fundamentals: -- Theory behind electricity: -- Atoms and their structure -- Electrons -- Valence shell -- Conductors, insulators, and semiconductors -- Conductors -- Insulators -- Semiconductors -- Electron flow versus hole flow -- How electricity works: -- Circuits -- Electromotive force or voltage -- Current -- Resistance -- Ohm's law -- Power -- Joule's law -- Putting it all together -- Lab 2-1: Constructing a simple circuit -- Currents and circuits: -- Direct current -- Alternating current -- War of currents -- Waveforms -- Sine wave -- Other waveforms -- Phase -- Using waves to measure AC voltage -- Direct current waveforms -- More about circuits -- Circuit diagrams -- Short circuits -- Fuses and circuit breakers -- Serial and parallel circuits -- Learning the language of electronics -- Part 2: Your Workspace And Tools: -- Tools of the trade: -- Essential hand tools -- Essential instruments -- Electronic specialty items -- Essential safety items -- Lab 4-1: Taking a DC voltage reading -- Lab 4-2: Taking an AC voltage reading -- Lab 4-3: Measuring resistance -- Lab 4-4: Measuring current -- Shop setup and safety: -- Clean, well-lit workshop -- Claim your space -- Your workbench -- Adequate power -- Lighting -- Ventilation -- Storage -- Safety equipment -- Good work habits are good safety habits -- Come ready to work -- Dress for the job -- Be neat and work deliberately -- Know how electricity flows -- First aid for electrical shock -- Part 3: Electronic Components: -- Switches: -- Switches symbols -- Mechanical switches -- Poles and throws -- Push-button switches -- Knife switches -- Bi-metal switches -- Mercury switches -- Other mechanical switches -- DIP switches -- Electromagnetic switches or replays -- Lab 6-1: SPDT switch -- Resistors: -- Mighty resistor -- Fixed-value resistors -- Resistor color codes and power ratings -- Reading the code -- Power ratings -- Surface mount resistors -- Single in line resistors -- Variable resistors -- Kirchhoff's law -- Calculating resistance -- Resistors in series circuits -- Resistors in parallel circuits -- Voltage division circuits -- Lab 7-1: Using Ohm's & Kirchhoff's laws to determine the proper resistor -- Lab 7-2: Resistors in a series circuit -- Lab 7-3: Resistors in a parallel circuit -- Lab 7-4: Voltage division using fixed-value resistors -- Lab 7-5: Voltage division using a variable resistor -- Capacitors: -- How a capacitor works -- Farads -- Relative permittivity -- Capacitor ratings -- Nominal value and tolerance -- Temperature coefficients -- Breakdown voltage or DC working voltage -- Polarized capacitor types -- Electrolytic capacitors -- Tantalum capacitors -- Nonpolarized capacitor types -- Variable capacitors -- Capacitors in a circuit -- Transient time of capacitors in A DC RC circuit -- Lab 8-1: Charging capacitance -- Diodes: -- How diodes work -- Types of semiconductor diodes -- Common silicon diodes -- Zener diodes -- Schottky diodes -- Power rectifiers -- Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) -- Photodiodes -- Handling diodes -- Transistors: -- Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) -- How amplifiers work -- BJTs under varying voltages -- Gain -- Darlington pairs -- Field effect transistors -- Lab 10-1: Using a transistor to amplify current -- Power sources and power supplies: -- Batteries -- How batteries produce energy -- Primary vs secondary batteries -- Voltages in batteries -- Batteries in series and in parallel -- Amp-hours -- AC-to-DC power supplies -- Transformers -- Variable DC power supplies -- Uninterruptible power supplies -- Switched-mode power supplies -- Lab 11-1: Making a potato battery --Part 4: Getting To Work: -- Soldering: -- Solder -- Lead-free solder -- Flux -- Soldering iron and tips -- Heat sink -- Circuit boards -- Printed circuit boards -- Prepping for soldering -- Place the items on the board -- Prepare your solder gun -- Soldering technique -- Desoldering -- Constructing a power supply: -- Power supply kit and construction -- Safety first -- Powering on -- Getting acquainted with your power supply -- Creating a positive DC wave -- Seeing caps and voltage regulators in action -- Using your variable DC power supply -- It's time for some comic relief -- Part 5: Going Digital: -- Digital theory: -- Ideas behind digital concepts -- Analog vs digital -- Truth tables -- Binary numbers -- Application to electronics -- Logic gates -- Lab 14-1: AND gate -- Lab 14-2: OR gate -- Integrated circuits: -- Analog ICs -- Digital ICs -- Flip-flops -- 555 and 556 timers -- Counters -- Encoders and decoders -- Mixed signal ICs -- Lab 15-1: Building a decoder circuit, part 1 -- Lab 15-2: Building a decoder circuit, part 2 -- Lab 15-3: Guitar amplifier -- Memory: -- Digital vs analog memory storage -- Parity bits and other error detection -- Hexadecimal -- Data and address -- Von Neumann computer model -- Memory registers -- Writing and reading -- Volatile and nonvolatile memory -- Storage media -- Microcontrollers: -- What are microcontroller? -- Microcontroller components -- Input/outputs -- Programming microcontrollers -- Microcontrollers for hobbyists -- Open source hardware -- Arduino microcontroller platform -- Netduino microcontroller -- Part 6: Constructing A Robot: -- Building your robot: -- Shopping for your robot -- Get the software you need -- Connecting your Netduino and getting to work -- Downloading to the Netduino microcontroller -- Motor and controllers: -- Brushed DC motors -- Brushless DC motors -- Stepper motors -- Servo motors -- Controllers -- Pulse width modulation -- H-bridge -- Getting your robot moving: -- Get your motor on board -- Assembling the motor driver shield -- Building a platform and mounting the parts -- Power it up -- Programming your robot to start and stop -- Identifying the I/O pins -- Adding speed control -- Sensors: -- What is a sensor? -- Electronic sensors -- Accelerometers -- Digital compasses or magnetometers -- Light and color sensors -- Microphones -- Alcohol and other environmental gas sensors -- GPS sensors -- Electronic communication: -- Basic of electronic communication -- Electomagnetic spectrum, revisited -- Radio waves -- Microwaves -- Infrared -- Visible light -- Ultraviolet, x-rays, and gamma rays -- Encoding and decoding a signal -- Amplitude modulation -- Frequency modulation -- Phase modulation -- Rasterization -- Lab 22-1: Building an FM stereo transmitter -- Adding sensors to your robot: -- Adding collision control -- Ultrasonic range finder -- Adding the sensor to your robot -- Adding a power switch -- Planning and writing the code -- Letting your robot roam -- Lab 23-1: Sensing distance -- Appendixes: -- A: Glossary -- B: Component shopping list -- C: Electronics timeline -- D: Mathematics for electronics -- E: Careers in electronics -- F: Resources -- Index.Overview: A creative spark for electronic enthusiasts. The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Electronics 101 teaches readers the fundamentals of electronics in an engaging, hands-on way. Appropriate for students and aspiring hobbyists alike, this book is loaded with more than a dozen projects that start simple and progressively get more involved as the reader moves through the book. Topics include: fundamentals of electronics: electrons, voltage, current, power, conductors, insulators, semiconductors, etc.; designing, building, and modifying circuit boards; sensors and controllers; and transmitters and receivers. Community college enrollment-where basic courses in electronics are most often taught-is at an all time high, up 8% from 2008 enrollment to 3.4 million new students per year. Specifically designed to appeal to both students and hobbyists with lost of fun, hands-on projects to aid in the learning process.

Subjects: Electronics.;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5

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Arduino workshop : a hands-on introduction with 65 projects / by Boxall, John,1975-Author(DLC)n 2013023779;

Long-awaited revision of this best-selling book on the Arduino electronics platform (50,000+ copies sold). Readers gain an in-depth understanding of the Arduino -- beyond just making simple projects. The Arduino is an inexpensive, flexible microcontroller platform that makes it easy for hobbyists to use electronics in DIY projects. With its wide range of input and output add-ons, sensors, indicators, displays, and motors, the Arduino offers you countless ways to create interactive devices. Through 65 hands-on projects, Arduino Workshop will teach you the tricks and design principles of a master craftsman. This edition has been updated for the latest version of the Arduino IDE and revised to reflect current hardware and technology. It includes coverage of general electronics concepts as well as schematic diagrams and detailed images of components. You'll experiment with touchscreens and LED displays, explore robotics, use sensors with wireless data links, and control devices remotely with a cell phone. Build projects like: *An electronic version of the classic six-sided die *A GPS logger that records and displays travel data *A keypad-controlled lock that opens with a secret code *A binary quiz game *A motorized remote control car with collision detection Whatever your skill level, you're sure to have fun as you learn to harness the power of the Arduino for your own DIY projects. NEW TO THIS EDITION: *A chapter on creating your own Arduino libraries *Updated robotic vehicle projects *Newer shields that leverage GPS, 3G, and LoRa data transmission capabilities *A chapter on MAX7219-based numeric LED displays and LED matrix modules *Covers Arduino IDE 2.x.

Subjects: Arduino (Programmable controller); Electronics; Open source software.;

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Practical electronics for inventors / by Scherz, Paul,author.(CARDINAL)357193; Monk, Simon.(CARDINAL)357194;

Introduction to electronics -- Theory -- Basic electronic circuit components -- Semiconductors -- Optoelectronics -- Sensors -- Hands-on electronics -- Operational amplifiers -- Filters -- Oscillators and timers -- Voltage regulators and power supplies -- Digital electronics -- Microcontrollers -- Motors -- Audio electronics -- Modular electronics -- Appendix A: Power distribution and home wiring -- Appendix B: Error analysis -- Appendix C: Useful facts and formulas.Spark your creativity and gain the electronics skills required to transform your innovative ideas into functioning gadgets. This hands-on, updated guide outlines electrical principles and provides thorough, easy-to-follow instructions, schematics, and illustrations. Find out how to select components, safely assemble circuits, perform error tests, and build plug-and-play prototypes. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Third Edition, features all-new chapters on sensors, microcontrollers, modular electronics, and the latest software tools.

Subjects: Textbooks.; Electronics;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 7

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Making things talk / by Igoe, Tom,author.;

The workbenches of hobbyists, hackers, and makers have become overrun with microcontrollers , computers-on-a-chip that power homebrewed video games, robots, toys, and more. In Making Things Talk , Tom Igoe, one of the creators of Arduino, shows how to make these gadgets talk. Whether you need to connect some sensors to the Internet or create a device that can interact wirelessly with other creations, this book shows you what you need. Although they are powerful, the projects in this book are inexpensive to build: the Arduino microcontroller board itself ranges from around $25 to $40. The networking hardware covered here includes Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and can be had for $25 to $50. Fully updated for the latest Arduino hardware and software, this book lets you combine microcontrollers, sensors, and networking hardware to make things... and make them talk to each other!

Subjects: Programmable controllers.; Robots.; Computational linguistics.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The robot builder's bonanza : 99 inexpensive robotics projects / by McComb, Gordon.(CARDINAL)735631;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 709-717) and index.

Subjects: Robotics.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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