Making Simple Robots: Exploring Cutting-Edge Robotics with Everyday Stuff, by Kathy Ceceri
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Making Simple Robots is based on one idea: Anybody can build a robot! That includes kids, school teachers, parents, and non-engineers. 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.
Making Simple Robots: Exploring Cutting-Edge Robotics with Everyday Stuff, by Kathy Ceceri - Amazon Sales Rank: #26516 in Books
- Brand: Maker Media, Inc
- Published on: 2015-03-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x .47" w x 7.52" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 243 pages
Making Simple Robots: Exploring Cutting-Edge Robotics with Everyday Stuff, by Kathy Ceceri Review "Making Simple Robots" is aimed at those looking to take their experimentation further. It teaches how to solder, how to assemble an electric circuit, how to create objects on a 3D printer and how to program using the popular Arduino microcontroller. This book promises to show readers how to animate folded paper origami, design a robot wheel-leg for 3D printing, and program a rag doll to blink its eyes. --Elizabeth Floyd Mair, Albany Times UnionKathy Ceceri's latest book, Making Simple Robots, is a grand slam -- the title says it all... I've already found two new projects I'll be including in my week-long summer camp, and I'm closing in on a third. Most of the book's projects are reasonable in price, and all of them are suited for the target age group [9 to adult] in terms of safety and skills needed. -- James Floyd Kelly, GeekDad.comThe mechanics, electronics, and programming elements become fascinating quickly because they become fathomable quickly, and that of course is the great joy of reading this book. At the end of it, everything will feel accessible. -- R.C., GoodreadsThe projects are well-organized with overviews and explanations followed by detailed lists of materials, parameters (time, cost, etc.), key skills required, and, thankfully, photos that accompany step-by-step tutorials. My biggest complaint about the book's organization is that Kathy's closing note, "What I Learned Writing this Book," would be better placed in the introduction. If you're a fairly new or tentative maker, read her thoughts first. They'll provide a lot of reassurance. -- Kim Moldofsky, TheMakerMom.comI loved the book. It showed me a wide variety of robots - many of which I didn't know about and would never have discovered on my own. This book is a great place to begin if you and your child aren't sure where to start with your robotics adventure. Although the book is geared toward teens and young adults, there is no reason an adult couldn't help a younger student with some of the projects. -- ArtisanEducation.com
About the Author Kathy Ceceri is a writer and teaching artist who loves to share hands-on learning activities for kids and adults, with a special focus on STEM/STEAM. In addition to her books, she was a founding editor of the GeekMom blog and top writer at Wired.com's GeekDad blog, and contributed over a dozen projects to the bestselling Geek Dad series of books. Formerly the Homeschooling Expert for About.com, Kathy is the proud mom of a computer game programmer and a filmmaker. Find her @kathyceceri on Twitter, +kathyceceri on G+, the Amazing Robotics page on Facebook, and at her website CraftsForLearning.com.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. More crafts than robotics By Scott Henson Still pretty much entry level. More craft-ish than what kids will identify with as robotics. The same author's Robotics covers much of the same ground and was a bit more kid friendly. I also wasn't a fan of relying on the Little Bits platform for simple circuits. That makes it pretty expensive to do the projects as described, or else you have to figure out how to do it with stand-alone circuits. Not difficult but annoying..
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Would make a good class, but too expensive for individuals By Denise Patterson OK, the projects are pretty neat, but this is NOT, as the title claims, an 'everyday objects' project book. Of the ten projects, only two could be done with TRULY 'everyday' objects that you might have around a normal household (YMMV if you are an electrical engineer), and one of those was a programming exercise and the other was basically a clay artwork project. Most of the other project require sending away online for LittleBits, arduinos, solar engine parts, flexinol wire, and a host of other stuff. MOST of the materials listed for any given project ARE probably around your house - basic tools, scissors, batteries, etc. And there are also a lot of not TOTALLY exotic but still oddball items - balloon hand pump, plastic gumball machine capsules, pvc pipe - that you probably don't have on hand but can get with a trip to the store. And did I mention that one project requires access to a 3D printer?That said, there are some good projects here, and if a young person worked through every one of them, they would have an excellent and broad introduction to a lot of new technologies. But you would have to be rich to afford all the materials. I think however this would be a terrific project book for a class so that everyone could chip in and pool resources to make the projects. Unfortunately, it's not really marketed as a class project book - had it been, I probably would not have gotten it, as my son is pretty disappointed at our lack of ability to buy him a 3D printer now...
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful. You, too, can build robots. By R. C. Drake You've watched the development of the geek renaissance with joy, but from the sidelines. You don't like programming, understand calculus, or know much about physical science. You celebrate Pi Day with all your mathy friends, and you follow IFLS on Facebook. You get Instructables e-mails ever since that one epic Halloween project. You joined the hackerspace to use their laser cutter for a craft idea you had to try. Maybe you've even made something using a 3D printer when your public library got a grant and held an intro class. You enjoy these things, but they are the wading pool, and you are still wary of deeper waters, remembering how miserably you failed to swim in grade school. At the thought of doing any major robotics, electronics, or engineering project, you still feel intimidated. No, no, wrong word, not intimidated; you like to learn, you have the spirit of a do'er and a maker. You're just a bit... outside. Perhaps you could best describe yourself as being not science-y exactly, but friendly with the science-y.Now with all these cool-looking projects at your doorstep, you're starting to wonder... is it because you're a girl, caught up in the bias of your generation's teachers? Is it because your high school was impoverished? Or maybe you are a white male of economic means, but you blithely pigeonholed yourself right alongside the burned-out junior-high guidance counselor who told you you were a humanities sort of kid.The generation above us, the one that believed that science isn't for everyone, has been proven wrong. Now the maker revolution is come. The layman (and woman) is taking back engineering and electronics and robotics, using these sciences for art, for farming, for drama, for games, for housekeeping, all things you take pride in doing creatively; and you realize there is no good reason for you to not get in on this and make some stuff. You are in the habit of taking your inspirations seriously, so you challenge yourself: really, why not actualize those fleeting daydreams about a robot that distracts your dog when the mailman shows up? What would that take, anyway? Some mechanical skills? A simple app?Problem is, you don't know how to find out. All the books for beginners assume a childhood steeped in the trappings of a passion for inventing. You don't know the first thing, literally, and you're a little frustrated even at trying to get simple, straightforward explanations from your science-privileged friends. If someone would tell you what that actual first thing really is, and build on it slowly (without denying your intelligence), you know that building such a robot would be fun to try. But how does a person who gave up science, technology, engineering and math at age eleven start learning the basics at age 35? Who can you talk to about robots, who won't assume you never learned this stuff before because you are dumb, who won't mistake you for an uncreative consumer who doesn't value making?The author, in this book, it turns out. This is the robotics education that is desired by artists, housewives, farmers, camp counselors, small business owners... anyone doing something interesting. No, anyone. Robotics for anyone with a desire to jump on board the Maker boat. The projects are do-able, explained step-by-step with the "why" behind it but without assumption of pre-existing technical knowledge. The projects are interesting, with historical background, cultural tidbits, biographical stories. The mechanics, electronics, and programming elements become fascinating quickly because they become fathomable quickly, and that of course is the great joy of reading this book. At the end of it, everything will feel accessible.It makes me want to start a Monday Night Robot-Maker's Night Out for all the science-friendly science-nervous makers I know. Fact, I think I will.
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