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Title: Build Your Own Combat Robot by Pete Miles, Tom Carroll ISBN: 0-07-219464-2 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 15 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: More hype than substance
Comment: This book is basically a big advertisement for combat roboting. Otherwise, the authors never seem to decide if they want to convey theory of mechanics or a rough overview of the pastime.
For example, they include charts that look technical, like torque vs. rpm, but convey no useful information that can't be reasoned out with a little common sense. The book carefully details various battery properties. But, in the very next section the only thing it says about power transfer that it is necessary to make the wheels turn. They include a few useless formulas that can, again, be easily reasoned, but it doesn't mention anything about how to build or acquire a transmission.
The controller sections are also poor. They include electronic schematics that, while not incorrect, are obsolete and overly simplified. Yet, in the same sections the book actually include programming (basic I think) for controller chips.
Maybe the one-star rating was a little low, but I feel that this book was a brain-stormed first draft that mistakenly made it past the editor.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good for the Intermediate....
Comment: I bought this book thinking it would supply with enough information about everything about radio control robotic combat, but it didn't. I was a complete beginner, & reading through the book made it seem like you should of anyready known this stuff; and because of this it didn't go into great detail. Now there is a great section on Robot Sumo in the last chapters which was very helpful on building my Sumo robot, but the rest of the book is really nothign to me unless I knew more about the hobby.
Rating: 3
Summary: Build Your Own Combat Robot
Comment: This is a good start for any person intrested in Combat Bots. Not as detailed as I hoped but has several good sources.
Built at least 2 working (Non Combat) Bots based on ideas learned from this book.
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Title: Combat Robots Complete : Everything You Need to Build, Compete, and Win by Chris Hannold ISBN: 0071408886 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Pub. Date: 26 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Robot Builder's Bonanza by Gordon McComb ISBN: 0071362967 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Pub. Date: 21 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Robot Builder's Sourcebook : Over 2,500 Sources for Robot Parts by Gordon McComb ISBN: 0071406859 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Pub. Date: 15 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Building Bots: Designing and Building Warrior Robots by William Gurstelle ISBN: 1556524595 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: BattleBots(R): The Official Guide by Mark Clarkson, Bill Dwyer ISBN: 0072224258 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 25 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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