Robotics

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2. CNC Robotics- Build Your Own Workshop Bot

   CNC Robotics

   Build Your Own Workshop Bot:
   • Book by Geoff Williams.
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11. Open-Source Robotics and Process Control Cookbook- Designing and Building Robust, Dependable Real-time Systems

    Open-Source Robotics and Process Control Cookbook

    Designing and Building Robust, Dependable Real-time Systems:
    • Book by Lewin Edwards.
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20. Mobile Robotic Car Design (Tab Robotics)

    Mobile Robotic Car Design (Tab Robotics)

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29. A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation

    A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation

• Book by Richard M. Murray, Zexiang Li and S. Shankar Sastry.

CNC Robotics- Build Your Own Workshop Bot

CNC Robotics

Build Your Own Workshop Bot:

• Review:: 'Ridiculously bad book Hard to give justice in words alone to exactly how bad this book is. A full review requires much gesturing, cursing and the throwing of objects. You can find much more useful information online. Books this bad are criminal acts of fraud.
• Review:: 'Go to [HobbyCNC]Create? dot com instead. Much better plans There are too many major flaws in this book. He builds his machine with a Nu-Arc camera positioner. How is anyone else supposed to find this exact model? Probably the worst part are the IC logic and driver chips. You will not be able to put this together unless you are already an experienced electronic technician. He shows you a schematic with some seemingly 80's era integrated circuits. (Judging by the xerox-looking images and misspelled words). These chips are hopelessly out of date. Modern chips have built in protective diodes, so you won't have to search all of creation for the ones his plans require. The way to go is to by a driver kit for $20 from Electronickits.com. (You'll need 3 of these). Some things he did made me wonder why: 1) Why have so many little jumper points on the boards for options that are unlikely to be used? I bought wire connectors for these unneccessarily. He didn't list mini-jumpers in the parts list. Only after very carefully studying the pictures, can you see what he is doing. 2) On page 4 he says he was impressed by how nice the Pac-Sci stepper motor people were to him when they were selling him his motors. On page 14 he says that he's not using Pac-Sci motors! Why? What happened? We paid some bones for this book and we want to learn from his experience. There just isn't enough explaining in this book. On the good side is that this book will teach you how easy it is to make your own circuit boards: Laser paper and an iron. You have to experiment a little, but it is very satisfying to know that you will be able to make your own boards if the need arises. I found that removing the paper while it is still hot will deposit enough "resist". No need to soak in water. The chemicals aren't really that nasty (even Radio Shack sells them). Just use warm water instead of a burner and wait longer than you otherwise might. BTW if you already own this book take a look at the lower picture on page 102. I had to wonder why is he using a different resist pattern than the one he wants us to use. He should be consistent between his photos and what we're supposed to do. I think that Dave Rigotti's book is much much better. He will personally give you advice through his Yahoo site. And, it's "cozy". By that I mean there aren't 5000 things on the site to get everything confused. His is more focused. I'd give this book a 1, but I did learn how to make my own PCB's and he also recommends a decent CAD CAM software (KCam).
• Review:: 'Disappointed - Many details left out. I was very disappointed that many important details were left out. Anyone who does a little research on the internet and has seen a CNC router knows the basics of what makes up a machine. What the book promised were the details of how to build your own. The details and parts lists were left out. Those are the critical items. Your money would be much better spent buying a good set of plans from the internet. There are many bulletin boards and web sites that have good information. Research them.
• Review:: 'Not the Best This book is NOT what was promised. The parts list is very lacking..you must be very familliar with electronics just to be able to order the parts..specifications would have been nice. Labeling and numbering the circuit boards would have saved tons of time. I did get a set of boards built that will run the stepper motors..I believe most of the information is correct but very hard to understand and follow..a few more wiring diagrams or more complete schematics would have been a great improvement. I could write a book on how to use this book and I have not started the gantry yet. It would have been nice to have more advice on motor selection and what it takes to drive what..too much left to guesswork.
• Review:: 'okay book - useful for ideas This is an okay book. It's good for getting ideas on how to cobble things together from surplus store and scrapyard pickings, as the author has largely done. I like the improvised use of parts, like the home depot TV tray for the z-axis, or an electrical junction box and clamps used to hold the pen for running the initial plotting tests.

  I have some complaints as well:

  1) A good 50 pages are reprint of stepper driver datasheet/application notes that you could probably find on the web.

  2) Chapter 3 describes making a printed circuit board, which fine, but many would not want to hassle with the chemicals involved. The author doesn't list perfboards with solder pads as an alternative to making your own PCBs.

  3) The author describes how he lifted the linear bearings from some surplus store find that he made. That's great, but what about some parts lists or even just rough specifications for those of us who didn't make that great find in the junkheap somewhere?

  4) No mention of what material he used for the guide rails (looks like it could be drill rod or blower shaft to me), or how he drilled and tapped the perfectly parallel holes for fastening it to the frame.

  The best thing about this book is that it shows you one way to do things from beginning to end with relatively modest tools, that the author was able to achieve some results with. Overall I found it useful and enjoyable.

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Open-Source Robotics and Process Control Cookbook- Designing and Building Robust, Dependable Real-time Systems

Open-Source Robotics and Process Control Cookbook

Designing and Building Robust, Dependable Real-time Systems:

• Review:: 'Interesting concepts Edwards does the reader a great service by going into why decisions are made. For example, Edwards leads you through the choice of which PC motherboard he was going to use for the project. His decisions and considerations were very insightful to me. Although the board(s) selected are now out of date according to the manufacturers, using his process will enable you to find motherboards to be able to handle the tasks in the book. Next, Edwards leads you through setting up Linux using [BusyBox]Create? and how to divide the system up using a compact harddrive and a [CompactFlash]Create?. All in all, while I consider myself an expert linux user, I found his coverage of material very interesting. Another keeper for my robotics bookshelf.
• Review:: 'for an experienced readership Edwards claims that his book is the first on using open source software to build robotic systems. The aim is to reduce the cost, as compared with using a commercial real time operating system. Hitherto, the latter has been the choice of many robotics designs. He puts a lot of detail into the text, of how to use linux as the embedded operating system in the robot. To address the issue of whether linux is up to the demands of real time running. The ideal reader should be proficient both in linux device drivers and in constructing robots. The text is probably not ideal for someone new to either field. To motivate the reader, Edwards provides several examples of functionalities to be built into the robots. Like being able to use GPS, which sounds quite neat.

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