Bøger af John Billingsley

In Pursuit of a Vision, by visionary business leader John Billingsley, offers readers a master class in entrepreneurship!John Billingsley has launched more than seventy businesses, achieving international success and resulting wealthbut he has not worked for another individual or company since the early 1960s. No matter what field your vision lies inarts or sciences, profit or nonprofitor the stage of life you are in, these practical, proven life lessons can be understood and successfully implemented by everyone. (No angel investors required!) From the importance of knowing yourself and your story to an unquenchable thirst for knowledge to garnering invaluable support from friends and well-built teamsand listening to GodJohn candidly shares what has worked and not worked for him as he pursued areas as diverse as accounting, banking, farming, construction, manufacturing, real estate, and renewable energy, to blockchain and artificial intelligence. These principles have made John Billingsley a successful serial entrepreneur, and he wants them to do the same for you.

From grading and preparing harvested vegetables to the tactile probing of a patient's innermost recesses, mechatronics has become part of our way of life. The addition of senses and computing intelligence to blend with mechanical actuation gives rise to a breed of new machines with all the best attributes of a robot. Here we find educational robots competing under water and dancing on land. Surgical robots drill precision holes in the skull while others direct radiation treatment or extract blood from an umbilical cord. Machine vision manages beer kegs and automated paint spraying, while controlling feral animals and the watering of cotton crops. Although there is no shortage of theoretical and technical detail in these chapters, they have the common theme that they describe work that has been applied in practice. They are vital reading both for students of mechatronics and for engineers harnessing its power to create new products.

The inertia tensor is presented as a key to understanding motion ranging from boomerangs to gyroscopes. Chains of transformations unravel the motion of a robot arm.To help the reader visualise motion, ranging from unbalanced rotors to vibrating systems with multiple modes and damping, there are abundant simulation examples on a linked website.

Whether hailing from the open Pennine hills or the close-knit neighbourhoods of industrial towns, West Yorkshire folk have always been fond of a good tale. The intriguing stories, brought to life with illustrations from a local artist, will be enjoyed by readers time and again.