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The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book: A Beginner's Guide to Building and Programming Robots |  | Author: Laurens Valk
Publisher: No Starch Press
Category: Book
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Edition: 1
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1593272111
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.892
EAN: 9781593272111
ASIN: 1593272111
Publication Date: April 26, 2010
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Product Description
Discover the many features of the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 set. The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book is the complete, illustrated, beginner's guide to MINDSTORMS that you've been looking for.
The crystal clear instructions in the Discovery Book will show you how to harness the capabilities of the NXT 2.0 set to build and program your own robots. Author and robotics instructor Laurens Valk walks you through the set, showing you how to use its various pieces, and how to use the NXT software to program robots. Interactive tutorials make it easy for you to reach an advanced level of programming as you learn to build robots that move, monitor sensors, and use advanced programming techniques like data wires and variables. You'll build eight increasingly sophisticated robots like the Strider (a six-legged walking creature), the CCC (a climbing vehicle), the Hybrid Brick Sorter (a robot that sorts by color and size), and the Snatcher (an autonomous robotic arm). Numerous building and programming challenges throughout encourage you to think creatively and to apply what you've learned as you develop the skills essential to creating your own robots.
Requirements: One LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 set (#8547)
Features- A complete introduction to LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0
- Building and programming instructions for eight innovative robots
- 50 sample programs and 72 programming challenges (ranging from easy to hard) encourage you to explore newly learned programming techniques
- 15 building challenges expand on the robot designs and help you develop ideas for new robots
Who is this book for?
This is a perfect introduction for those new to building and programming with the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 set. The book also includes intriguing robot designs and useful programming tips for more seasoned MINDSTORMS builders.
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Excellent Guide to NXT 2.0 September 6, 2010
Unmesh
I recently bought my NXT 2.0 Kit and I was looking for a book to start my adventures with NXT. So far this is the best introductory book I found. I liked all the robot models and author's instructions from basics to advance level. This is a great companion for your NXT Kit. Highly recommended!!
Pros : Concise, Helpful examples, Well-written, Easy to understand, Accurate
Best Uses : Expert, Intermediate, Novice, Student
Describe Yourself : Maker, Designer, Developer
Awesome way to get to know NXT! August 22, 2010
Lash Sweeney (Arizona)
I had just purchased my first NXT (2.0) and several people recommended this book. I can see why! it is a step-by-step introduction to the NXT, set up in exercises as if for a class, but totally usable by the individual user like me. I have been having a blast acheiving each step.
This book is fun, and very clear.
I am really enjoying my NXT more with it than I would have without!
Absoulutly Fantastic July 31, 2010
danim
This is a fantastic book if you are into LEGO Mindstorms, it has great step by step instructions for a number of fantastic models and if you are not sure about programming the NXT this book helps you with that
Thank You Laurens for creating a fantastic book.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes Mindstorms and has or is thinking a bout getting the Lego NXT
A valuable resource sure to entertain and inform hobbyists July 12, 2010
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
Legos have gone far in the past few decades. "The Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Discovery Book: A Beginner's Guide to Building and Programming Robots" is a guide to the programs and technological pursuits of Lego's newest Mindstorms toys that have been provoking the creativity of young builders. These tools have limitless potential and provide many challenges, and Laurens Valk gives plenty of tips on using the programs to its fullest. "The Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Discovery Book" is a valuable resource sure to entertain and inform hobbyists.
A Tremendous NXT Teaching Accomplishment By A Young Roboticist June 30, 2010
Ira Laefsky (Philadelphia, PA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
From his infectious enthusiasm for the Mindstorms NXT System it might be easy to guess that Laurens Valk was introduced to Lego Robotics at age 13 just five short years ago. But, from the careful logical pedagogy of this book and his interesting approach mixing successively more advanced robots intermixed with a clearly arranged taxonomy of parts, programming tools and motor/drive train and sensor categorization, I would have imagined that this book was written by an excellent teacher with many years of experience bringing engineering concepts to youthful learners. Not only does the book offer a clear top-down beginning to end approach to both the NXT Parts Architecture and NXT-G Programming Language while combining this end-to-end approach with interesting projects of increasing difficulty, but he stimulates the reader with building and programming challenges to increase their skill at independent thought in robot building and programming. Just how far and how thoughtfully Laurens' teaching approach goes is indicated by by his unique system of flowcharting/state diagrams which both provides the logical decisions involved in programming this system with a graphical correspondence to the NXT-G Programming language.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough as an aid to using the Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 robotics system, and bringing a
new generation of roboticists and engineers to a deep and intuitive understanding these sciences. This handbook should be included in every Mindstorms NXT Set to insure that the recipient will learn, absorb and extend the concepts which this powerful educational system can teach.
--Ira Laefsky
MSE/MBA I.T. Consultant and Former Senior Staff Member Arthur D. Little, Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation
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