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The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide
 

The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide
written by David J. Perdue
Studio : No Starch Press
by No Starch Press
Publisher : No Starch Press
Released : 2007-10-29
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9781593271541
Avg. Customer Rating:(based on 16 reviews)

List Price : $29.95
Our Price : $17.40


Customer Reviews for  'The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide'
 
step by step
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.
 
A great book!
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.
 
Fun, helpful, informative for beginner and intermediate
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.
 
An excellent LEGO MINDSTORMS book for both beginners and advanced builders alike
These are my first impressions on David Purdue's book, I will follow up later when I finish reading it. So far what I can say is that it differs from other No Starch Press books in many ways. For starters, the quality of the images (in grayscale) is very much improved. I found no difficulty following the building instructions which David managed to keep simple and well commented. I would not say it is as if they were in color, but it is close enough. In other No Starch books I really did have problems in that area, and had it not been for the help and support of the authors themselves and the community, I could not have finished some projects.

Secondly this is a highly educative book. It starts from the very basics and goes to some very advanced topics. My son and I regard ourselves as experienced Lego builders, having built dozens of robots. Well, what a surprise we were in for. In the first few pages when David starts to "dissect" and classify every single part of the Mindstorms kit, we were already learning some details it would have been impossible to find out otherwise. This book has a meticulous attention to detail for which the author must be commended. It merits careful reading because you find bits of useful info in every page.

I am eager to reach the programming section in which I hope to improve my NXT-G skills considerably.

As to the robots themselves, they are in line with the purpose of the book, which is educational. You learn something by building them.

I truly recommend this book and especially as a first book if you plan to build Lego Mindstorms robots for quite some time.
 
Excellent first book for Lego Mindstorms
If you are new to Lego Mindstorms then you are also probably new to Lego Technics. This book not only covers how to program robots but also how to build them with Lego Technics parts and makes use of many well laid out and easy to follow diagrams. This book should be included with every lego Mindstorms set.
 
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