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The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide

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Manufacturer: No Starch Press
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DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.892
EAN: 9781593271541
ISBN: 1593271549
Label: No Starch Press
Manufacturer: No Starch Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 300
Publication Date: 2007-10-29
Publisher: No Starch Press
Studio: No Starch Press


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• LEGO Mindstorms NXT
• The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build
• LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: The Mayan Adventure (Technology in Action)
• LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming Guide (Technology in Action)
• The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Zoo!: A Kid-Friendly Guide to Building Animals with the NXT Robotics System


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great book and response from author.
Comment: I highly recommend this book since the documentation that comes with the set is lacking. The book fills in the voids.
Also, I had a question about availability of a program. The author responded with an answer within one day.

Customer Rating:
Summary: learn to program in one day
Comment: The book was very helpfull and got into details. We ramped up on all the major capabilities in one day. very good SW part and great instruction for building stuff.

Customer Rating:
Summary: step by step
Comment: I'm novice with LEGO Mindstorm
with this book i have a very good "step by step" procedure to build and understand this amazing toy.
Pros: it uses simple lenguage and cover all sensors and actuators.
Cons: the introduction for programming without graphical interface is confuse.


Customer Rating:
Summary: A great book!
Comment: This book is a very helpful guide. It tells you everything that you need to make a good robot, from building a sturdy structure to programming it. With this book, you will be able to explore the full potential of your robot kit. Beside basic instructions, the book also has 6 projects to give you a hand-on experience. Each project has both building and programming guides. The building guide is made very careful; beside the picture, it also has a clear written instruction to make the building task easier.
I use this book to prepare my team for the Spelman Computer Science Olympiad. My team only has a week to prepare for the competition and, thanks for this book, we won 3rd place in the robotics competition.


Customer Rating:
Summary: Fun, helpful, informative for beginner and intermediate
Comment: I've had NXT for about 10 months and have three other books. I wish I had know about this first. My strong point is programming, my weak point is gearing and this is the only book that really shows how to build gear trains. I love rover bots and have designed many but he has several fresh takes on the genre. His ball caster is much more elegant than mine and his bumper is quite sturdy. (My method of picking a random angle for a turn is better than his though: random block set for 0 to 6 wired to a switch block with 7 conditions, the equivalent of 45,90,135 degrees left and right and 180. save the whole thing as a myblock to use with all your rovers.)
I highly recommend this book if you are starting out or if you want to get some new ideas for rovers.

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