How to Build Your Own Prize-Winning Robot (Science Fair Success) [Library Binding]

Ed Sobey (Author)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 11 and up
  
• Library Binding: 128 pages
• Publisher: Enslow Publishers (August 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0766016277
• ISBN-13: 978-0766016279
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,577,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ed is curious - he wants to see the world and understand how it works. So he travels (a lot) and takes things apart. And, he enjoys putting things together from building robots to writing books.

As a math and physics major, Ed likes numbers. He's traveled to 61 countries on all 7 continents. He has directed 5 museums (including the National Inventors Hall of Fame and founding the National Toy Hall of Fame) and written more than two dozen books.

He holds a Ph.D. in oceanography and has participated in 20 some expeditions, including doing research on sea ice in Antarctica. With his wife, he has sailed across the Pacific Ocean and has done a circumnavigation teaching oceanography for Semester at Sea. Ed is a Fellow Emeritus in The Explorers Club.

An avid outdoors person, Ed runs, bikes, swims, kayaks, and SCUBA dives. Along the way he searches for the unusual gizmo to take apart or at least figure out how it works.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Teaching the fundamentals, August 10, 2005

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Felicia DiBernardo - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Build Your Own Prize-Winning Robot (Science Fair Success) (Library Binding)

Learn how to build your own prize-winning robot with Science Fair success! This book teaches the fundamentals of robotics, from motor to wheel alignment and step by step instructions for the construction of a real robot. The book also includes biographical references and easy reference tools such as a table of contents and index. The illustrations in this book are all black & white photographs that come from multiple sources. The black & white photos do NOT hinder the book in the slightest. In fact the photos help to enhance the step by step instructions and help to give full detail of what the ending results of a finished robot should look like.

The author also supplies readers with several comprised lists: WHERE TO FIND ROBOTIC COMPETITIONS; WHERE TO FIND ROBOT KITS & SUPPLIES; HOW TO GET INVOLVED IN ROBOTIC CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS; and an additional list of SUGGESTED READINGS & INTERNET SITES. Surprisingly, after checking the majority of referenced web-addresses most seemed to still work - not sure how long that will last though. OVERALL - this is a terrific introduction to robotics for kids ages 9 to 12.

0 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars how to build a robot, April 23, 2003

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B.Balakrishnan (india) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Build Your Own Prize-Winning Robot (Science Fair Success) (Library Binding)

i want a book to learn to build a robot.