While this website and many others are a good resource, there are many others as well.
Robot building made Slashdot.org today. Read the thread reviewing the book of
Robot Building for Beginners
Another great book is one sent to me by its author for a review
"Kickin' Bot An Illustrated Guide to Building Combat Robots" by Grant Imahara. I never got back to the author (sorry, Grant), but the book is pretty good. It covers a lot of stuff that only a battlebot person would care about, but it has a lot of great practical robot building techniques, especially good is the section on how to use shop tools and how to build with lowtech tools.
There are a lot of other good books and whitepapers out there. One thing that a good book has that this website and many other online resources lack is a well thought out and organized flow of the data stream. Hyperlinks are great some times, but at other times, they are just invitations to get lost in another forest.
For what it is worth...
Joe J.
Standard P.S. for the 2005 Season:
P.S. I promised myself that I'd put in a shameless plug for the
"NBD: Nothing But Dewalts" whitepaper whenever I posted in the 2005 Season, so here it is: I believe this instant classic will take its place as one of the most important How To's FIRSTers have access to. JJ