Seriously though, I loved the card and share it. I hope everyone reading has a spouse or mate that is as supportive as mine.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Valentines Day 2012
I love it that my wife supports my robotics tinkering and research. Check out my Robot Scientist card!! I'm in robot/nerd heaven! lol
Seriously though, I loved the card and share it. I hope everyone reading has a spouse or mate that is as supportive as mine.
Seriously though, I loved the card and share it. I hope everyone reading has a spouse or mate that is as supportive as mine.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Robot Building for Beginners, Second Edition by David Cook
Robot Building for Beginners, Second Edition by David Cook
Review: I read this book on Books24x7.com on, which is a great service. You can read tons of books online for a membership fee. Books are of a business, IT, programming and technical nature. They have a good selection of robotics books too.
This book is not bad for a beginner who wants to build a nice line following robot on their own and really learn about the parts and tools involved in the process. This books does a nice job of covering the subject of making a very basic robot and introduces someone to robot building through the line following robot. This book does not cover any other types of robots and does not cover more advanaced typics like microcontrollers or computer control. If you desire to build something more than a line following robot I would not recommend this book.
Review: I read this book on Books24x7.com on, which is a great service. You can read tons of books online for a membership fee. Books are of a business, IT, programming and technical nature. They have a good selection of robotics books too.
This book is not bad for a beginner who wants to build a nice line following robot on their own and really learn about the parts and tools involved in the process. This books does a nice job of covering the subject of making a very basic robot and introduces someone to robot building through the line following robot. This book does not cover any other types of robots and does not cover more advanaced typics like microcontrollers or computer control. If you desire to build something more than a line following robot I would not recommend this book.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Awesome video on Subsumption based robots
From Robots.net I came across this 2 hour video from David Anderson, a member of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group, with a great discussion and demonstration on some of the uses for subsumption.
You can view the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CXReb7f0Eo&feature=player_embedded#!
What I like is how far David has expertly taken the subsumption design approach to create what I would call high performing robots with a somewhat basic design.
In other words, his robots are not covered in duct tape with wires hanging out all over like mine, hehe
Pretty neat to see and educational. =)
Happy Roboting,
-Justin Ratliff
You can view the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CXReb7f0Eo&feature=player_embedded#!
What I like is how far David has expertly taken the subsumption design approach to create what I would call high performing robots with a somewhat basic design.
In other words, his robots are not covered in duct tape with wires hanging out all over like mine, hehe
Pretty neat to see and educational. =)
Happy Roboting,
-Justin Ratliff
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