TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martin,Fred G.
TI  - Robotic explorations: a hands-on introduction to engineering 
SN  - 0130895687
U1  - 629.892 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Upper Saddle River, N.J.
PB  - Prentice Hall
KW  - Engineering design
KW  - Robotics
N1  - Acknowledgements - 1. Introduction. - 2. A first robot. - 3. Sensors. - 4. Motors, gears, and mechanism. - 5. Control. - 6. Advanced sensing. - A. Inside the Handy board design. - B. Construction techniques. - C. Serial communications and data collection. - D. Handy board specificaton. - E. Interactive C reference. - F. Robert contests. - G.  Resources
N2  - Robotic Explorations : a Hands-On Introduction to Engineering engages students in hands-on robot building, emphasizing technological systems of all kinds-electrical, mechanical, and computational. A first text for students as well as reference for practitioners, the book provides all the practical information needed to create an introductory freshman-level laboratory class. This versatile and pioneering book sparks the imagination and leads the reader into many thought-provoking and challenging engineering situations. - Back cover
ER  -