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    Little Leonardo's MakerLab: Robots
    Little Leonardo's MakerLab: Robots
    Little Leonardo's MakerLab: Robots
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    Little Leonardo's MakerLab: Robots

    By Bart King and Greg Paprocki

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    More than 20 fun and engaging hands-on activities for young readers interested in robots, robotics, coding, and artificial intelligence.

    Activities range from how to create code to make robots learn and perform basic tasks to building very simple robots from common household items. These activities are designed to engage both the readers’ hands and minds, which helps them better understand and retain the knowledge gained from the activities.

    Bart King taught middle school for many years. He’s written 28 books, including The Big Book of Girl Stuff, The Big Book of Boy Stuff, The Big Book of Superheroes, The Big Book of Gross Stuff, and Bart’s King-Sized Book of Fun. He resides in Portland, Oregon.

    Greg Paprocki works full-time as an illustrator and book designer. He has illustrated several Curious George books, as well as previous books in the Little Leonardo series, the BabyLit alphabet book series, and The Big Book of Superheroes for Gibbs Smith. Greg resides in Lincoln, Nebraska.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGibbs Smith
    Release dateMay 28, 2019
    ISBN9781423652892
    Little Leonardo's MakerLab: Robots
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    Bart King

    Bart King has written more than twenty-eight books, including The Big Book of Boy Stuff, The Big Book of Spy Stuff, and The Pocket Guide to Mischief. His books for Gibbs Smith have sold more than 830,000 copies combined. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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      Little Leonardo's MakerLab - Bart King

      Little Leonardo’s MakerLab: Robots

      Written by Bart King

      Illustrated by Greg Paprocki

      Little Leonardo’s MakerLab: Robots

      Digital Edition 1.0

      Text © 2019 Bart King

      Illustrations © 2019 Greg Paprocki

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except brief portions quoted for purpose of review.

      Published by

      Gibbs Smith

      P.O. Box 667

      Layton, Utah 84041

      1.800.835.4993 orders

      www.gibbs-smith.com

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018951142

      ISBN: 978-1-4236-5289-2

      To the least robotic person I know:

      Evan King.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Dream Robot

      Be a Tinker

      Make a Robot Head

      Make a Scavenger Robot

      Candy-Tron Prime 7000

      Pulley Power

      Cup-Bot

      Boat-Bot

      Gravity-Bot

      Flat Robot

      Make a Gobble-Bot

      Robot Dancer

      Art-Bot

      Robo-Wobbler

      Robot Brusher

      Remote-Controlled Rover

      Coding: Speaking the Robot’s Language

      Human Robot: Drawing

      Human Robot: Moving

      Learning to Code

      Glossary

      Landmarks

      Cover

      Title-Page

      Glossary

      Introduction

      Here is something that everyone knows: Robots are cool! But what is a robot, exactly? Robots come in all different shapes and do all sorts of different jobs. A robot could be a machine that mows a lawn or cleans the pool. A robot might be a drone, flying high in the sky. Some robots can dive into the ocean, or even volcanoes. Others can go into outer space. Right now, there is even a robot with wheels on Mars.

      Here are some basic robot types:

      Programmed robots do one job over and over.

      Mobile robots can move around.

      Remote-controlled robots are run by humans.

      Independent robots can move and think on their own.

      Androids are robots that look and act like humans.

      A robot does not need to look like a person. Even so, a robot can be like a person. A robot is made of lots of different parts, like you are. It even has a computer inside to help it think. That computer is like your brain.

      But there

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