McComb, Gordon

A handbook for creating, testing, and playing colorful 2-D computer games.

Presents a guide to building a robot, providing detailed instructions and diagrams on robot basics, parts and tools, construction techniques, sensors and navigation, motors and locomotion, and more.

Presents step-by-step, illustrated instructions for building eighty-eight laser-based projects such as ray guns, light cannons, detection systems, and laser-beam communications devices, and includes information on the history of lasers and how they work.

Presents educational but fun projects, from building basic motorized platforms to teaching a machine to walk, talk, and obey commands.