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Making Simple Robots: Exploring Cutting-Edge Robotics with Everyday Stuff Kindle Edition

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Length: 225 pages Word Wise: Enabled Optimized for larger screens
Age Level: 11 - 17 Grade Level: 6 - 12
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  • File Size: 15891 KB
  • Print Length: 225 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1457183633
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: Maker Media, Inc; 1 edition (February 19, 2015)
  • Publication Date: February 23, 2015
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00U1VU2AQ
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3.0 out of 5 starsMore crafts than robotics
By Scott Henson on April 18, 2015
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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..
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3.0 out of 5 starsWould make a good class, but too expensive for individuals
By Denise Patterson VINE VOICE on June 15, 2015
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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...
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5.0 out of 5 starsYou, too, can build robots.
By R. C. Drake on April 3, 2015
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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.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsrobots
By genoa golf VINE VOICE on May 21, 2015
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That is collection of different project, each of them covering a separate aspect of robotics, like different materials, different kinds of movement, or interaction. It is not meant to complete one robot that incorporates all of the above, those are all separate projects, and they are all very different.

Many of the projects require substantial investment, like littleBits sets or a 3D printer (or 3D printing service), although 3D printing is something that is more and more available, if not in homes, than at schools and libraries, so it might not be such a big deal. The projects range from sculpting your face over a printed photo with a Model Magic clay, to sewing, to soldering to Scratch and Arduino programming. Each of the projects is interesting by itself, and there is a lot of extra information about each topic, including history of the subject and why is it important, and links to where to find more information.

I think that as a concept, this book is great and has lots of interesting ideas. But as a practical guide, I am not so sure, because of so many different expensive or obscure equipment being used for the projects that are quite simplistic and basic. My 5 year old is trying to work on the project on the front cover (obviously, with help), because we do have littleBits already, but who in their right mind will go and buy littleBits for this project instead of a motor and some wires? And if you do have littleBits than why choose this book with only two littleBits projects? (maybe because as of now there is only one other book on littleBits, and with poor reviews?) And where on Earth can we find 5 inch long thin rubber bands for the project?Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 starsLots of supplies needed. Accessible writing. Neat projects.

This book is pretty cool for learning some concepts and completing some activities in robotics, starting with the very basic and simple and gradually getting more complex. Read more

Published 2 months ago by B. Caruso
5.0 out of 5 starsThis book is awesome! We just purchased littleBits for robotics and...

This book is awesome! We just purchased littleBits for robotics and this is a great added resource.

Published 2 months ago by Barbara Digby
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

great ideas for STEM

Published 3 months ago by RK
4.0 out of 5 starsWorth reading

Very creative and informative.

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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great book. Super fast shipping

Published 8 months ago by becker
5.0 out of 5 starsItem as described. Thank you!

Item as described. Thank you!

Published 10 months ago by Clare
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

I'm satisfied.

Published 11 months ago by Raul Carmenate Sr
4.0 out of 5 starsA Gentle, if Light, Introduction to Building Robot-Like Things

This book takes a very broad view of the term "robot", and is clear in saying so. Within the first few pages, robots are described as things which "sense, think,... Read more

Published 12 months ago by Amazon Customer
4.0 out of 5 starsThe Make way approach to introduce robotics

This book is a project of the Make magazine who were pretty successful in their publication. In a way it resembles a textbook approach. Read more

Published 12 months ago by Nuk
4.0 out of 5 starsGood for the budding engineer

My son has taken some robotics and engineering classes in which he builds his own projects with a group of students his age. Read more

Published 12 months ago by Mira Dugan

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