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The UBTECH Jimu Robots Builder's Guide: How to Create and Make Them Come to Life
Chapter 1: Jimu Robots in STEM EducationChapter This chapter discusses STEM Education, and it will probably be the shortest, but will give a basic introduction to the UBTECH Jimu Robots.A) What is STEM?B) How STEM Helps Children/Students LearnC) How Jimu Robots Can Help
Chapter 2: Jimu Robots KitsChapter This is where we talk about the basic Jimu robot kits, and what kind of pieces that they have. A) Main Parts 1) Main Control Box 2) Robotic Servo MotorsB) Other Parts 1) Character Parts 2) Fasteners 3) Connectors
Chapter 3: Jimu Robots SoftwareChapter Now that the pieces are fully introduced, the user can be introduced to the software that can make things move. A) What the program can do for the userB) How to use it to create Jimu Robots Creations
Chapter 4: Designing a Basic CreationChapter This chapter details how to create a basic creation with wheels. A) Basic vehicle controlsB) How to use the infrared sensor.
Chapter 5: Designing a Walking CreationChapter The Servo motors can allow the user to do some interesting walking creations, and there are many ways to do accomplish that. This chapter shows how to make one with two legs, four legs, and more!A) Using Servo Motors as LegsB) Creating a walk cycle programC) Using the infrared sensor
Chapter 6: The Robotic ArmChapter In this particular chapter, I will discuss how to create a robotic arm. A) How to Construct the Robotic ArmB) Using Servos for Control
Chapter 7: Creating the Robot TransformerChapter This chapter will detail how to create a construction that can drive like a car and shift into a robot like the classic Hasbro toy.A) How to create a TransformerB) Using the Servos for Control
Chapter 2: Jimu Robots KitsChapter This is where we talk about the basic Jimu robot kits, and what kind of pieces that they have. A) Main Parts 1) Main Control Box 2) Robotic Servo MotorsB) Other Parts 1) Character Parts 2) Fasteners 3) Connectors
Chapter 3: Jimu Robots SoftwareChapter Now that the pieces are fully introduced, the user can be introduced to the software that can make things move. A) What the program can do for the userB) How to use it to create Jimu Robots Creations
Chapter 4: Designing a Basic CreationChapter This chapter details how to create a basic creation with wheels. A) Basic vehicle controlsB) How to use the infrared sensor.
Chapter 5: Designing a Walking CreationChapter The Servo motors can allow the user to do some interesting walking creations, and there are many ways to do accomplish that. This chapter shows how to make one with two legs, four legs, and more!A) Using Servo Motors as LegsB) Creating a walk cycle programC) Using the infrared sensor
Chapter 6: The Robotic ArmChapter In this particular chapter, I will discuss how to create a robotic arm. A) How to Construct the Robotic ArmB) Using Servos for Control
Chapter 7: Creating the Robot TransformerChapter This chapter will detail how to create a construction that can drive like a car and shift into a robot like the classic Hasbro toy.A) How to create a TransformerB) Using the Servos for Control
236 pages, Paperback
Published November 17, 2017
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March 26, 2019
I bought this book for one of my daughters who, with two robotic summer camps in the bag, had received a couple of Jimu bots. She was disappointed with the book and so was I, since its 225 pages add very little to the information one can get just from exploring the Jimu application and a Blocky guide for middle-school computer work.
More than two thirds of the book are dedicated to list parts, to assemble some of the robots (in most cases with less clarity than in the video guide provided by the Jimu app), and to put together special parts and make them move using the preset "actions" of the software (which is a commented rehash of what the app provides). Released in December 2017, it had a quiet reissue in mid-2018; there is nothing in the copyright page indicating that the latter is a differently printed reissue than the former book, and it has the same ISB numbers and copyright date. It seems nearly impossible to accept that the reason for the quiet reissue was the *disastrous* quality of the figures of the initial publication, which --despite illustrating objects of different color-- were in grey-scale mode (rather than color), often too dark, and always washed out by a lack of contrast that trying to find what is being illustrated is utterly useless. The reissued figures are in color and while its readability has improved its image resolution has not, making them look like from a VGA type display. I have the inkling it must be extraordinarily difficult to find a guide with worse figures than these.
Only the chapter 6 of the book, Advanced Programming Techniques, is not marred by incompetent illustrations. Its so-called advanced programming is simply the basic Blocky functions and commands available for Jimu robots. The chapter briefly visits each command, providing a short explanation often accompanied by a screenshot; there are a few programming examples as well. The writing style of most of Mr Rollins' descriptions and explanations of Blocky programming are more at the level of late teens or adults, rather than that of preteens or perhaps early teens, who are supposed to be the target Jimu users. Curiously, a few of his descriptions, such as "the IR Sensor command is made for the IR Sensor," which managed to elicit a laughing _Duh!_ from my daughter, are at a toddler level.
Finally, the printing quality of the initial edition of the book is also very poor. Annoyingly, in most pages it is possible to see what is written on the opposite page of the same sheet, which has been avoided in the Kindle fromat but the worth of the information still remains disappointing. Reading this book was *not* a pleasurable activity. I am surprised the editing staff of the book's publisher dared to disclose their names on the copyright page of the initial edition -- assuming, of course, those names were real.
More than two thirds of the book are dedicated to list parts, to assemble some of the robots (in most cases with less clarity than in the video guide provided by the Jimu app), and to put together special parts and make them move using the preset "actions" of the software (which is a commented rehash of what the app provides). Released in December 2017, it had a quiet reissue in mid-2018; there is nothing in the copyright page indicating that the latter is a differently printed reissue than the former book, and it has the same ISB numbers and copyright date. It seems nearly impossible to accept that the reason for the quiet reissue was the *disastrous* quality of the figures of the initial publication, which --despite illustrating objects of different color-- were in grey-scale mode (rather than color), often too dark, and always washed out by a lack of contrast that trying to find what is being illustrated is utterly useless. The reissued figures are in color and while its readability has improved its image resolution has not, making them look like from a VGA type display. I have the inkling it must be extraordinarily difficult to find a guide with worse figures than these.
Only the chapter 6 of the book, Advanced Programming Techniques, is not marred by incompetent illustrations. Its so-called advanced programming is simply the basic Blocky functions and commands available for Jimu robots. The chapter briefly visits each command, providing a short explanation often accompanied by a screenshot; there are a few programming examples as well. The writing style of most of Mr Rollins' descriptions and explanations of Blocky programming are more at the level of late teens or adults, rather than that of preteens or perhaps early teens, who are supposed to be the target Jimu users. Curiously, a few of his descriptions, such as "the IR Sensor command is made for the IR Sensor," which managed to elicit a laughing _Duh!_ from my daughter, are at a toddler level.
Finally, the printing quality of the initial edition of the book is also very poor. Annoyingly, in most pages it is possible to see what is written on the opposite page of the same sheet, which has been avoided in the Kindle fromat but the worth of the information still remains disappointing. Reading this book was *not* a pleasurable activity. I am surprised the editing staff of the book's publisher dared to disclose their names on the copyright page of the initial edition -- assuming, of course, those names were real.
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