EASY
ROBOTICS
PROJECTS FOR
KIDS USING
EVERYDAY
STUFF
Making Simple
ROBOTS
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nd
Edition
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Making Simple Robots, 2
nd
Edition
ROBOTICS / EDUCATION
Anyone can make a robot!
Making Simple Robots, 2nd Edition shows kids (and adult beginners) how to build low-tech/no-tech
robotic models, and code them with free, online software like Autodesk’s Tinkercad, MIT’s Scratch, and
Microsoft MakeCode. You’ll even find out how to create robots that blink, draw, and walk with the low-
cost, programmable BBC micro:bit mini computer board.
Step-by-step, full-color illustrations tell you what to do — with shortcuts you can use when needed, and
challenges to add as your skill set grows. Along the way, you’ll hear about the researchers, scientists,
and designers whose work inspired the projects in this book.
In Making Simple Robots, you’ll get to:
• Explore simple electric circuits with light-up origami and jiggling motorized bots.
• Practice real-life CAD design by creating all-terrain robot wheel-legs, ready for 3D printing.
• Learn to sew — and code — a cyborg rag doll with an animated electronic “eye.”
• Design a wild scribbling robot with its own tilt controller that tells it where to go.
• Build a walking robot insect that moves along on six legs with a programmable motor.
• And more!
Kathy’s Rules of Robot-Building:
1. You can never use too much tape.
2. Googly eyes can turn pretty much anything into a robot.
3. If it works a little bit, it works. Keep going!
4. If your robot does something unexpected and it’s kind of
cool, it’s OK to take that new idea and run with it.
5. Your everyday stuff prototype is just the beginning. Learn more, find better
tools, grow your skills. You never know where simple robots can lead you!
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Making Simple
ROBOTS
2nd Edition
KATHY CECERI
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