Ardupilot goes into the water Part 17
Some of you may wonder.
Why was there such so long silence ?
Indeed, my last entry dates back to last christmas. And here is the reason why:
http://www.apress.com/9781430231837
I was asked by JD Warren, who is also a diydrones member ( http://diydrones.com/profile/JDWarren ) to help him on a book about Arduino-controlled robots.
JD is a great inventor and maker of various machines that (mostly) roll on wheels. He was also featured on the title of the MAKE magazine in April 2010.
Finally, with a delay of six months, the book was published by mid July and JD, Josh and i are happy now that all the work is over.
If you want things to be moved with Arduino, this is the ultimate Book.
There are lots of hands-on descriptions in it and it is also a good starting point for newbies, that have never had a soldering iron in their hand.It gives also a good introduction to the basics of electronics and computerized control.
Here is an overview of some of the chapters:
- Basics of motor-control
- Basics of PCB design and fabrication
- R/C control and decoding
- Autonomous sensor guidance
- Frame building from various materials
- Instructions for a variety of robot designs, including:
- Linus the Line Bot, who follows a line on the floor
- Wally the Wall-Bot, who tries to avoid crashing to the wall
- The Bug-Bot, who acts a little bit like an insect
- The Explorer-Bot, who is strong enough to carry a human and that can work outdoors
- The RoboBoat, which is navigating via GPS to predefined waypoints. (this is in fact the chapter written by me and summarizes the building of the catamaran, and the modified ArduPilot hardware that i am using to do the survey of lakes)
- The Lawn-Bot 400, who is the first that can do something useful in your garden
- The Seg-Bot, which is in truth not a robot, but a Segway (tm) Clone
- And finally: the Battle-Bot
The book is available as e-book or in a printed version:
http://www.apress.com/9781430231837 or
http://www.amazon.com/Arduino-Robotics-John-David-Warren/dp/1430231...
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Comment by S.G. Sutter on August 22, 2011 at 8:15am -
Ordered this book on Amazon and received it last week, but didn't know one of the authors was on DIYdrones. Cool!
A group of us at work are using the book as reference material for our projects.
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Moderator Comment by John Church on August 22, 2011 at 8:20am -
Harold, you published DIY-er! Nice job!
"...but didn't know one of the authors was on DIYdrones."
Two of them, even! :)
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Comment by Dimitar Kolev on August 22, 2011 at 1:24pm
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Ordered - seems like a lot of sleepless nights :-) Well now is time for part 18
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Comment by bergsprekken on August 22, 2011 at 2:18pm
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Is the explorer-bot for real? I gotta build one, ordering the book. :D
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Comment by Simone Chiaretta on August 23, 2011 at 12:13am -
Congrats. I wrote a few book about development (published by Wiley/Wrox) and I know how they can steal your spare time :)
Do you know if the book will be available on Amazon Kindle? I hate printed books (because don't know where to put them at home) but I have an extensive credit on Amazon (so would hate to buy books from other stores).
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Comment by Harald Molle on August 23, 2011 at 2:02am -
@bergspreken
The eplorer bot was made by JD, you can contact him via this link :
http://diydrones.com/profile/JDWarren
@simone:
I believe it is only available as PDF. But you can contact APRESS, they should know
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Moderator Comment by Mark Harrison on August 24, 2011 at 9:07pm -
Looks good, congratulations! I've just ordered my copy.
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Comment by bigkahuna on October 18, 2011 at 10:51pm
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Congratulations on the book! How much detail is included in your chapter on the RoboBoat? Does it include all the code and construction details to build the complete project? If so that alone would make it worth buying. :)
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Comment by Harald Molle on October 20, 2011 at 2:50am
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Yes, all issues are covered
- Materials used
- construction of the hulls
- propulsion assembly
- Modification of the AP Hardware
- Software
- mission Planning
- Trouble shooting
btw.
The book covers much of other rhings, including introduction to Arduino, basics of electronics and much more.
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Comment by Christi M. Underdown-DuBois on November 28, 2011 at 8:23am
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Harald, I'm a librarian for Ingram, which is distributing your book. I would love to establish an authority heading with your preferred form of name & birthdate in the Library of Congress, so you will never be confused with any other authors by the same name. This, of course, will help promote your book in libraries around the world. Would you please write me back and help me help you?
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