Making Simple Robots

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the team at Maker Media—Brian Jepson, Patrick DiJusto, Frank Teng, and of course Dale Dougherty—for their help and encouragement in creating this book. I’d also like to acknowledge the support and inspiration of the following people and companies in my pursuit of robot-building ideas, skills, materials, and information:

• Robert, Camille, and Genevieve Beatty
• John Rieffel at Union College
• Michael Dickey, Jan Genzer, and Ying Liu at North Carolina State University
• The Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab for the use of Scratch
• NASA Ames Research Center and Vytas SunSpiral
• George M. Whitesides and his research group at Harvard University, especially Filip Ilievski
• Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University ...