If, like us, you’ve ever had the deep pining associated with wanting to build a robot or two, this book is definitely for you. This 360-page guide to everything you’ve ever wanted to know about robots covers how they work and how to build your own.
You’ll learn how to select the right power source, use the tools you’ll need and how to build a robot from things you have around the house or from kit form.

The book features handy little thumbnail guides to such important skills as using a digital multimeter, how Cadmium-sulfide sensors (CdS) work, soldering and using breadboards. Although there’s no mention of toast.

Designed, as the name suggests, for beginners as an introduction to robot building, kits of varying difficulty are covered, with something for every skill level.

The layout of the book is clean and easy to follow, with helpful tips littered about the pages providing guidance from the experts. Progressive diagrams help with the robot designs in the book, while the guide to recognising basic equipment will help with your future robot building.

Grab this book and build yourself a coathanger walker, Mousey the junkbot or finally find a use for those pesky AOL CDs with the DiscRover. The book even includes help on writing Visual Basic for robot microcontrollers. The reference section covers robot parts retailers, unfortunately they’re all US based, but the guide to robot fan and reference sites should answer all your robot queries.