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Sub-titled 'Maker-Inspired Projects for Building Your Own Robots', this step-by-step illustrated guide features brand new projects and specially commissioned photography. Easily-sourced components including lollipop sticks and plastic drinks bottles on page 82 or a BBC micro:bit to provide the brains for a cool project like an Avatar, a Skuttle Bot, a Catapult Bot or a Walking Robot. There are templates and diagrams and step-by-step colour photo sequences to teach you simple electronics and programming. The book helps you design and build your very own custom-made creations that can walk, draw or even guard your home - the possibilities are endless. Featured robots include Spiro Bot, a machine that creates psychedelic patterns of an amazing variety, Butterfly Bot which skips along on its own, Garden Guardian which alerts your phone when a plant needs to be watered, a CNC Writer which allows you to perform repetitive jobs at high speed and with great precision (computer numerical control). If you tinker and love such antics like building a spud cannon or ant-weight robots, take a pincer and grab this bargain. 160pp in large softback, colour photos.