LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT One-kit Wonders: Ten Inventions to Spark Your Imagination
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- Pub. Date: November 2008
- 388pp
- Sales Rank: 57,427
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: November 2008
- Publisher: No Starch Press San Francisco, CA
- Format: Paperback, 388pp
- Sales Rank: 57,427
- ISBN-13: 9781593271886
- ISBN: 1593271883
Synopsis
This is the latest volume in No Starch Press line of LEGO-related titles and a follow-on to our best-selling The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book. Volume 2 in this series dives headfirst into the creative thrill of robot-building. Eight authors contribute thorough, easy-to-follow steps for assembling everything from a Grabbot (a robot that can find and move objects autonomously); a Self-Parking Car (a robotic vehicle that can park itself between two objects); an M&M sorter; a Punchbot (reminiscent of the old computer punchcards); a Candy Picker (with a built-in generator and a remote control); and a robotic Hand. This is a great follow-on to the many readers who already love The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book, and a great book for those who just want to do some building.
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James Floyd Kelly is a freelance writer living in Atlanta, Georgia, with degrees in English and Industrial Engineering. A long-time Lego Mindstorms developer, he is editor-in-chief of the world's most popular Lego blog, thenxtstep.com, which continues to draw an estimated 30,000+ readers monthly, and is a regular contributor to the Lego Mindstorm development team. James Kelly has written on topics including robotics, building custom computers and free software. His most recent book, Don't Spend a Dime: The Path to Low-Cost Computing, is the first book on free software to be published in four years. When not writing, he and his wife enjoy watching their little boy discover all kinds of new and exciting things about the world.
James Floyd Kelly is a member of the Mindstorms Developers Program and has access to the beta software and hardware. He maintains a blog dedicated to NXT.
He was accepted as a member of the beta team for testing of the new Mindstorms NXT. He created the #1 Mindstorms NXT blog in January 2006, and it continues to draw an estimated 30,000+ readers monthly for news, updates, and information on NXT. Readers and fans of NXT know his name and that he is actively involved in promoting NXT as well as teaching kids and adults how to design, build, and program robots using the new
Matthias Scholz is a member of the LEGO Mindstorms Community Partners Program. His NXT-related Web site is extremely popular. He is also a frequent contributor to the well-known NXT blog, The NXT STEP. He majored in Mathematics at the University of Bayreuth and has held various positions in German IT enterprises.
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Excellent Projects that you can really build!by Lego_NXT_fan
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February 13, 2009:
I own the first Idea book, the Inventor's Guide and I finally ordered the One-Kit Wonders book, as it was the one that was published last. Its projects are probably the best of the 3 books. Very doable, challenging, but they are very well designed and once finished, they work very well. They are a lot of fun to build for me and my 10-year old. This book is different to the two others mentioned here, because it goes directly into the projects without any introduction to Mindstorms building or NXT-G programming tutorials. So the content is fully dedicated to the projects. The download section of the blog forum is working OK, so now you can download the programs. And last but not least, when you get stuck at some point, you can always count on the forums for help. I posted a question and one the the co-authors replied to me within a few hours with a solution. The book is the "tip of the iceberg" because there is a community around it that goes beyond the printed works. And the authors are all well known experts in Lego NXT design and building and they are very accessible and responsive.
The only wish for this middle-age reviewer (with a middle-age eyesight) would be building instructions in glorious Lego colors. As in the other books they are in greyscale. To the credit of the authors, they did poll their readership in the blog about this when the book was still in the works, and the result was overwhelmingly in favor of B&W to keep the cost down.
This book makes my Mindstorms NXT experience so much enjoyable that I rate it with five stars.
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