Robot Building for Beginners by David Cook
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Book Reviews of Robot Building for Beginners
Book Review: Worthless
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm sorry to have had to give such a low mark for this book. At first I thought it was a sort of Beginning Electronics for Robot building, and that was fine, but soon after I realised it was just a set of instructions aimed to build the robot on the cover. The first part focuses on the tools to be used, the second part on the building.
If you want an introductionary guide to robotics this book doesn't do for you. If, otherwise, you want to buy a set of instructions to build a simple, non programmable robot just for the sake of it, this is perfect.
Book Review: Dull and obvious
Summary: 1 Stars
Author David Cook gives us a book on the obvious, the mundane, and the superficial. A full two-thirds of the book is not on building robots at all, but on very basic electronics, a topic far better handled by other books. With this Cook fills the book with inconsequential photographs and other fluff to fatten the book. For instance, he shows us a picture of a resistor with a particular value, then a little later in the chapter, another picture of a different value resistor. The difference to the eye is just the color-coding of the resistor, and the pictures are in black & white! Useless. When the book does start to cover robotics, it pays amazing short shrift to the subject, glossing over details expected in a "beginner's" book. The sample robot, made from a plastic sandwich box, is far from inspiring. Would-be robot builders are better off with Forrest Mims Radio Shack books for electronics information, McComb's, Wise's, or Lunt's books on robotics, and an inexpensive robot kit to get them started.Book Review: Excellent Book for Beginners
Summary: 1 Stars
This is an excellent book for beginners in the field of electronics and Robotics. It shows you how to start working with electronics with lots of photographs which clearly illustrate what needs to be done, for example how to use a multimeter and the helping hands and tools required.
It also introduces one to mechanical calculations that may be required at a practical level. It can give the confidence to one to actually build a robot. At the end of the book there is a very nice chapter on what things lie beyond the material covered in the book.