123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius – Myke Predko – 1st Edition

Myke's Rules of Robotics

Section 1 Introduction to Robots

Experiment 1 Toilet Paper Roll Mandroid

Experiment 2 Pipe Cleaner Insect

Experiment 3 LEGO Mobile Robots

Experiment 4 Cardboard Arm

Section 2 Robot Structures

Experiment 5 Cutting Plywood

Experiment 6 Strengthening Structures

Experiment 7 Finishing Wood

Experiment 8 A Gaggle of Glues

Experiment 9 Nuts and Bolts

Experiment 10 Soldering and Splicing Wires

Experiment 11 Assembling the Included PCB

Section 3 Basic Electrical Theory

Experiment 12 Electrical Circuits and Switches

Experiment 13 Electrical Circuits and Switches

Experiment 14 Voltage Measurement

Experiment 15 Resistors and Voltage Drops

Experiment 16 Current Measurement and Ohm's Law

Experiment 17 Kirchoff's Voltage Law and Series Loads

Experiment 18 Variable Resistors

Experiment 19 Kirchoff's Current Law and Parallel Loads

Experiment 20 Thevinin's Equivalency

Experiment 21 Power

Experiment 22 Batteries

Section 4 Magnetic Devices

Experiment 23 Electromagnets

Experiment 24 Relays

Experiment 25 Measuring the Earth's Magnetic Field

Experiment 26 Direct Current (DC) Motor

Section 5 Drivetrains

Experiment 27 Motor-Driven Crane

Experiment 28 Pulleys Added to Crane

Experiment 29 Switch DC Motor "H-Bridge"

Experiment 30 Differential Drive Robot Chassis

Experiment 31 Stepper Motors

Experiment 32 Muscle Wire

Section 6 Semiconductors

Experiment 33 Diodes

Experiment 34 Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs)

Experiment 35 NPN Transistor and Two-LED Lighting Control

Experiment 36 Driving a Motor with a Transistor

Experiment 37 Bipolar PNP Transistor Motor Control

Experiment 38 Transistor Motor H-Bridge

Section 7 Our Friend, the 555 Chip

Experiment 39 Blinking LEDs

Experiment 40 555 Button Debounce

Experiment 41 R/C Servo Control

Experiment 42 Light-Seeking Robot

Section 8 Optoelectronics 121

Experiment 43 Different Color LEDs

Experiment 44 Changing an LED's Brightness

Experiment 45 Multisegment LEDs

Experiment 46 Optoisolator Lock and Key

Experiment 47 White/Black Surface Sensor

Experiment 48 Line-Following Robot

Section 9 Audio Electronics

Experiment 49 Buzzers

Experiment 50 Basic Transistor Oscillator Code Practice Tool

Experiment 51 Electronic Stethoscope

Experiment 52 Sound-Level Meter

Section 10 Digital Logic

Experiment 53 Basic Gate Operation

Experiment 54 CMOS Touch Switch

Experiment 55 Bipolar Transistor-Based TTL "NOT" Gate

Experiment 56 Sum of Product Circuits

Experiment 57 Common Logic Built from the NOR Gate

Experiment 58 XORs and Adders

Experiment 59 Pull-Ups/Pull-Downs

Experiment 60 Mickey Mouse Logic

Section 11 Power Supplies

Experiment 61 Zener Diodes

Experiment 62 Linear Power Supply

Experiment 63 Switch Mode Power Supply

Section 12 Sequential Logic Circuits

Experiment 64 RS Flip Flops

Experiment 65 Edge-Triggered Flip Flops

Experiment 66 Full D Flip Flop

Experiment 67 Flip Flop Reset

Experiment 68 Parallel Data

Experiment 69 Traffic Lights

Experiment 70 Shift Registers

Experiment 71 Christmas Decoration

Experiment 72 Random Movement Robot

Experiment 73 Counters

Experiment 74 Schmitt Trigger Inputs and Button Debounce

Experiment 75 PWM Generation

Section 13 Learning to Program Using the Parallax BASIC Stamp 2

Experiment 76 Loading BASIC Stamp Windows Editor Software on Your PC

Experiment 77 Connecting the PCB and BS2 to Your PC and Running Your First Application

Experiment 78 Saving Your Applications on Your PC

Experiment 79 The "Hello World!" Application Explained

Experiment 80 Variables and Data Types

Experiment 81 Number Data Formats

Experiment 82 ASCII Characters

Experiment 83 Variable Arrays

Experiment 84 Using Mathematical Operators in the Assignment Statement

Experiment 85 Creating Simple Program Loops

Experiment 86 Conditionally Looping

Experiment 87 "Power Off" Application

Experiment 88 Conditionally Executing Code

Experiment 89 Advanced Conditional Execution

Experiment 90 Using the "for" Loop in Your Application

Experiment 91 Saving Code Space Using Subroutines

Section 14 Interfacing Hardware to the BASIC Stamp

Experiment 92 Controlling an LED

Experiment 93 Cylon Eye

Experiment 94 Hitachi 44780-Controlled Liquid Crystal Display

Experiment 95 Musical Tone Output

Experiment 96 Electronic Dice

Experiment 97 Keypad Input

Experiment 98 Resistance Measurement

Experiment 99 PWM Analog Voltage Output

Experiment 100 R-2R Digital-to-Analog Converter

Section 15 Sensors

Experiment 101 bLiza, the Snarky Computer

Experiment 102 Multiple Seven-segment Displays

Experiment 103 RCtime Light Sensor

Experiment 104 Differential Light Sensors

Experiment 105 Sound Control

Experiment 106 Robot "Whiskers"

Experiment 107 IR Object Sensors

Section 16 Mobile Robots

Experiment 108 DC Motor Control Base with H-Bridge Drivers

Experiment 109 State Machine Programming

Experiment 110 Robot Moth Example

Experiment 111 Random Movement Explained

Experiment 112 Remote-Control Car Robot Base

Experiment 113 R/C Servo Setup

Experiment 114 Controlling Multiple Servos

Experiment 115 Robot Artist

Experiment 116 Parallax's "GUI-Bot" Programming Interface

Experiment 117 Stepper Motor Control

Experiment 118 Infrared Two-Way Communications

Section 17 Navigation

Experiment 119 Line-Following Robot

Experiment 120 Wall-Following Robot

Experiment 121 Ultrasonic Distance Measurement

Experiment 122 Hall Effect Compass

Experiment 123 NMEA GPS Interface

PBASIC Reference

Acknowledgments

Index