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21st Century Robot
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21st Century Robot

by Brian David Johnson
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
6h 21m
English
Make: Community
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Chapter 10. How to Build a Robot

The 21st Century Robot Project is an ongoing project. It will essentially always be a work in progress. We are driven by the dream that anyone should be able to imagine, design, build, and program their own robot, and we are trying, wherever we can, to simplify the process. And we have a lot of people helping us.

The 21st Century Robot Collective is a group of builders, makers, engineers, academics, and passionate people who want to lower the barrier to entry, allowing all of us to make and live with robots. Even after this book is published, we will continue to refine and improve the project. You can track our results at our website.

In this chapter we’ll look at some of the details of how to start designing, constructing, ...

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