Build Your Own Humanoid Robots

GREAT `DROIDS, INDEED! This unique guide to sophisticated robotics projects brings humanoid robot construction home to the hobbyist. Written by a well-known figure in the robotics community, Build Your Own Humanoid Robots provides step-by-step directions for 6 exciting projects, each costing less than $300. Together, they form the essential ingredients for making your own humanoid robot. Build Your Own Humanoid Robots & Amazing and Affordable Projects Serious enough to interest robot professionals, the plans inside offer serious fun to hobbyists. They give you the power to breathe life into a mechanical being with amazingly human qualities, and feature all the instructions you need for programming the inexpensive chips that give your humanoid brains and sensitivity. 6 Astounding Projects: * Robotic Arm, Wrist, and Hand. Build a versatile robotic arm system to give your humanoid the ability to manipulate objects/ A PIC microcontroller provides motor control and feedback. * Personal Computer Interface. Learn how to interface the robot arm or any other robotics project to a personal computer for complete control and feedback. * Visual Basic Control Software. Develop flexible bidirectional communications software to control the robot arm or other projects from your personal computer. * Voice Recognition Control. Make your robotic arm and walking robot obey your spoken commands with this completely embedded control system that can also be used for many other applications. * Expressive, Speaking Face. Enable your robot to show happiness, surprise, excitement, anger, and more, as it speaks any words you transmit electronically. * Bipedal Walking Robot. It`s your own amazing small scale, fully autonomous robot! Learn about sensors, analog-to-digital converters, DC motor control, microcontrollers, feedback, and contro Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.