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| | Product Details | | Author: | Karl Williams | | Paperback: | 272 pages | | Publisher: | McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics | | Publication Date: | November 05, 2002 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0071412417 | | Package Length: | 8.98 inches | | Package Width: | 7.32 inches | | Package Height: | 0.79 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.28 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 13 reviews |
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 Excellent book! Jul 24, 2008
This book is excellent for beginners in the field of robotics. Karl Williams focuses on practical applications of robot building, leaving much of the theory and providing only material necessary for understanding of the subject. The author thoroughly explains all consecutive steps of robot building showing his great competence in the fields of mechanical, electrical and software engineering. His books are well written and easy to understand.
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 Good Book, but I expected more Feb 13, 2008
I like the book, like it says it explain every step in the construction of a insectronic. But I expected more from the electronics part, explaining more why the design of the diagram that in fact, I think it is the heart of the robot.
 BOOK IS INCOMPLETE AND SOME WHAT DISAPPOINTING Sep 25, 2007
This book is incomplete. The author leaves some vital information out on most if not all of the electronic components of the build.The book is well organized but the lists provided are not specific enough! For
example,Mr.Williams tells you to purchase a 4 MHZ crystal, 78L05 voltage regulator etc. But what he neglects to tell you is were to get these parts,who makes them,and the specific part number. The problem lies in
fact that there many variations of these parts. Finding the right parts
so far on the internet has been a guessing game at best and a complete waste of my time! And forget about getting any help from the author or his website. It's been three and half months since I e-mailed him without
a single reply. He sells the circuit boards on his website, but doesn't
have a shopping cart to make the purchase. Of coarse, if he doesn't answer e-mails, would you want to send your hard earned money to this guy? Until Mr. Williams provides all the necessary information in his book and on his website you to will be disappointed too.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
great for beginners Mar 13, 2006
Although it is becoming out-of-date, it is still a very helpful source for beginners like me. It covers many aspects of robot design around a complete sample robot project. The topics it partially covers are shortly; PCB making, PIC circuit design and PIC programming, legged robots walking gaits, robotic sensors.
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Very Impressive robot ever!!! Jul 28, 2005
This book is truly amazing for robot hobbyist like me. I built a different robot using Karl Williams instructions even though it for the robot in his book. I built the robot too and it's real easy to build. I built the main controller board using a solderless breadboard and made the infared sensor board using the radioshacks PCB kits, it was a little different though. For the programs I had to tweak them because i couldn't afford the Picbasic pro, so with my little imagination I got some of the programs to work. This book is a must get and it's one of my favorites too. if you want to built a walking robot this one is worth building. so don't just look and read the book build it and I promise you will have lot's of fun just messing around with it.
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