Servo - November 2008

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Robot Builder’s Cookbook

by Owen Bishop

This is a book for first-time robot builders, advanced builders wanting to know more about programming robots, and students in further and higher education tackling microcontroller-based practical work. They will all find this book a unique and exciting source of projects, ideas, and techniques to be combined into a wide range of fascinating robots. $29.95 Sale Price 24.95

The Definitive Guide to Building Java Robots by Scott Preston

The Definitive Guide to Building Java Robots is for educators, students, hobbyists, and startups looking for Java/hardware interaction. This book shows you how to use your PC to build robots, and how you can interface with a microcontroller to do the basics. You’ll learn to design your robot to navigate, see, speak, recognize your face, listen to you, and build maps. $55.95 Sale Price 47.95

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PROJECTS

Tankbot Kit & Alpha Brain Kit

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Sept. issue

Tankbot/ Brain Alpha by Ron Hackett A bi-monthly series filled with projects and experiments to challenge you through your learning process while you grow your fully expandable Brain Alpha PCB!

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The Alpha Brain kit is an excellent way to

The TankBot gives you everything you get started in robotics. The brain — a need to start building your own sturdy PICAXE-14A — is easily programmed in a servo-motor robotic tracked vehicle. dialect of Basic that includes many powerful Powered by two modified R/C servos commands. At the end of each of Ron’s ( 44 oz-in torque). The assembled Tankbot articles, he will include programming for that measures 7 inches long, 4. 75 inches wide, month’s project. The kit also includes a 400 and 3. 5 inches high. The top deck is point breadboard which allows for drilled ready for the Alpha Brain. For more considerable expansion and experimentation. info & pictures, visit the SERVO Webstore For more info & pictures, visit the SERVO at www.servomagazine.com. Webstore at www.servomagazine.com.