Step-by-step guidance on building a six-legged insect-like walking robot

Insectronics : Build Your Own Walking Robot

Computers & Technology

Williams,Karl

Computer Science

McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics

This work provides the hobbyist with detailed mechanical, electronic, and PIC microcontroller knowledge needed to build and program a snake, frog, turtle, and alligator robots. It focuses on the construction of each robot in detail, and then explores the world of slithering, jumping, swimming, and walking robots, and the artificial intelligence needed with these platforms.

Amphibionics : Build Your Own Biologically Inspired Reptilian Robot

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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 &amp; 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 control systems.
Also included is the background information regarding construction materials, test equipment, printed circuit board fabrication, microcontrollers, and programming and design considerations needed to create the humanoid robot projects.

Build Your Own Humanoid Robots : 6 Amazing and Affordable Projects (TAB Robotics)

McGraw Hill TAB

Killing Time: Surviving Dubai's Most Notorious Prisons

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sidgwick Jackson Ltd

Roland Johnson’s autobiography is the triumphant story of a man who rose above an intellectual disability and devastating abuse to become a prominent leader in the self-advocacy movement.\nAs a child, Roland was sent away to live at the infamous Pennhurst State School in Pennsylvania, where he was sexually assaulted and forced to do unpaid manual labor. When he finally got out, he discovered the “real world” had no place for people like him — people who weren’t considered normal or valuable by societal standards.\nThrough a hospital counseling program, Roland ultimately began to find his voice. He discovered an ability to speak his truth and to fight for other people with disabilities. He would become president of Speaking for Ourselves and bring wide-scale awareness to the struggles faced by people with disabilities, as well as the unique gifts those same people have to offer.\nLost in a Desert World brings you into Roland’s life through his own voice and both encourages and challenges you to connect to your own humanity as a means of connecting with the humanity present in all people. Roland Johnson was a man of great courage, vision, and determination. He had an alternate kind of intelligence — one not based on what we call intellect. In Roland Johnson’s world, understanding — one person for another — is the way of the future, the only route to true freedom.\nCRITICAL PRAISE\n"Roland Johnson has an important story to tell. In writing this truth-telling autobiography, he becomes a powerful witness to the cost of segregation and the hope of community." — Joseph P. Shapiro, author of No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement\n"Roland Johnson was a friend and a hero of mine. He was a great pioneer of the frontier of human being. Read his book.” — Justin Dart, father of the ADA, Americans With Disabilities Act, and Chairperson of the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities under President Bush\n“Roland Johnson was a good and true man whose friendship I cherished. He was a teacher to many of us, and now this book will carry his voice across the country.” — Gunnar Dybwad, internationally respected advocate and past president of the International League of Societies for Persons with Mental Handicaps\n"Roland is a man who accepted you for who you were. He was a friend to everyone and wanted to help people live their dreams and have control over their lives. It was an honor to have him as my friend.” — Tia Nelis, Chair of the Board of Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE)\n"It is rare, even in fiction let alone autobiography, when an author's words leap off the page through the ear to awaken the reader's heart. I never knew Roland Johnson. But thanks to Karl Williams, I am able to know Roland's playful spirit, his soul full of knowing, the truth of his experience. Bravo to both." — Lucy Gwin, Mouth Magazine\n"... Intimate and vivid portrayal … Roland Johnson's autobiography … breaks new ground regarding the authenticity with which it projects his voice … Karl Williams' preservation of Roland's words, and Roland's voice, his unique manner of speaking intact, shines new light on the meaning of ‘speaking for ourselves.’ … (A) work of pioneering authenticity ..." — Melissa Probst, AAMR Journal\n"Lost In a Desert World is so good and Roland's talking is so much like him, it felt like I was in the same room with him again … Loved every minute of it ... It made me want to reach out and hug him …" — Robert Perske, Author

Roland Johnson’s Lost in a Desert World: An Autobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

Johnson, Roland

Community & Culture

Karl W Thaler

"We are not retards. We are people just like you," says author Michael Long.

If Your Dreams Are Big Enough, the Facts Don't Count

Long, Michael S.

Leaders & Notable People

Massey-Reyner Pub

After spending half his childhood in Pennhurst State School and Hospital for the Mentally Retarded, Johnson emerged to become a captivating speaker and a respected leader of the self-advocacy movement. The book marks the first time that a person with developmental disabilities tells about his life in his own words

Lost In a Desert World : The Autobiography Of Roland Johnson (as told to Karl Williams)

Speaking for Ourselves

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