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Making Simple Model Steam Engines
Stan Bray
ISBN: 978186126773 3
US $45, often on sale for less

This book is simply outstanding. So many books I have bought on the subject of building model engines of one sort or another are just disappointing in one way or another. Not so with this book. I enjoyed ...

Title: Building Robot Drive Trains
Authors: Denniis Clark and Michael Owings
ISBN: 0071408509
Price: $25 US

Any 10-year old Lego Mindstorms engineer can tell you it is not always easy to get your bot to go where you want it. In Building Robot Drive Trains, authors Dennis Clark and Michael Owings provide an introduction to building motor controllers and simple ...

Title: Build Your Own All-Terrain Robot
Authors: Brad Graham and Kathy McGowan
ISBN: 007143741X

I'm planning to build a robot this year - not a cute, cuddly little thing scared to death of the big outdoors, but a serious workaholic. Most books I've picked up about hobby robotics are about little tiny bots that ...

Kids love robots.

Several months ago, for family movie night, we watched Short Circuit. I have four kids and they enjoyed it. Especially my youngest – at the time just about to turn three. She couldn't stop talking about the robot and what it did, everywhere she went and to everyone she talked to.

I ...

Web Hacker Boot Camp
by Gerald Quakenbush
ISBN: 097684071X, 236 pages, $39.95

Some of the most serious security flaws on the Internet today are application-layer flaws in custom web applications. Such vulnerabilities undermine all other system hardening efforts. While techniques to exploit application-layer flaws are common among hackers, most security professionals have little experience with ...