Title: Good concept - poorly executed
Product review: I really had high expectations for this book. I was looking for something that would provide an alternative to the PPRK-based "Ultimate Palm Robot" book. And this book does provide what appears to be a workable, if not very robust robot design that you can wirelessly link your Palm or WinCE PDA to. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the book is cut-and-paste data sheets - including some of the marketeering hype. This makes for a very disjointed read since the style of the book changes with each new data sheet and many concepts and terms are not explained well. As a result, this would probably be a difficult book for someone new to robotics. I'm still not sure that the schematic for the robot in this book was worth $20 - $30. I would suggest "Programming and Customizing the OOPIC Controller" by Dennis Clark as an alternative to this book. The OOPIC is easy to work with and the chapter describing interfacing the OOPIC to a Palm device is very well written.
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