"Genius is one percent
inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Thomas A. Edison, 1932
"Give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your
saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunnard's
liners and the electric telegraph, are to me ... signs that we are, on some
points at least, in harmony with the universe."
Charles Kingsley, 1848
"For `tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petar;"
W. Shakespeare, Hamlet III iv, 206
Copyright © 1994-2002 by John K. Bennett
Seventh edition,
January 2002.
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Substantial portions of this document are derived from The 6.270 Robot
Builder's Guide, Copyright © 1992 by Fred G. Martin, with the permission of the
author.
To contact the author, write to:
John K. Bennett
Department of Computer Science
CB 430
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309
This document may also be obtained in electronic form via the World Wide
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Section 2.1,
"`Electronic Assembly Technique," is based on a previous version written by
Pankaj Oberoi of M.I.T..
Chapter 8, "LEGO
Design," was originally co-authored by Fred Martin and Randy Sargent, both of M.I.T..
Chapter 4, "Basic
Electronics," was originally co-authored by J. Patrick Frantz and David Hindman, and
was extensively revised by Jim Young.
Chapter 3, "Basic
Mechanics," was originally written by David Hindman, and revised by Brendan Daly.
This document was typeset by the LATEX
text formatting system. The psfig macro was used for including PostScript figures
in LATEX documents. dvips was used to
create final PostScript output. Latex2html was used to create the html version,
which was then edited using Microsoft Frontpage.
Many diagrams were created with the idraw X-windows-based drawing
program, distributed by the M.I.T. Athena computer network. The commercial program IslandDraw
was used to edit postscript figures from other sources.
Electrical circuit schematics were drawn using the the Viewlogic Systems PowerView
CAD suite of tools.
Printed circuit board artwork was created using the PADS Perform
PCB design suite.
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