Make: Robotic Arms

Start your journey into the exciting world of robotics!  This accessible guide teaches how to design, build, and control robotic arms. Using simple, affordable parts, readers will learn how to build a robotic arm, control it with an Arduino, and add servos to add degrees of motion for increasingly complex movements. Readers will also learn inverse kinematics, a mathematical process that enables robots to move, lift, and draw with more precision than humans. This is not a book for hardcore engineers, but a beginners guide for makers, teachers, and students with no previous experience required.   About the Author Matt Eaton is the makerspace and fabrication lab manager at High Point University's Webb School of Engineering in North Carolina. He was previously the founder of Anyone Can Build Robots, a philanthropic robotics company aimed at producing high-quality, affordable robotics kits. Matt has also served as a high school robotics teacher, a coach for robotics teams, and a developer of robotics and computer-science curriculum for schools. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.