DISCOVER THE CAPTIVATING WORLD OF LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT 2.0!
The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT 2.0 Discovery book is the complete, illustrated beginner’s guide to MINDSTORMS that you’ve been looking for.
Author Laurens Valk’s crystal-clear instructions will show you how to harness the NXT 2.0 set and software to build and program your own robots. The book’s many step-by-step tutorials will make it easy for you to build complex robots that move, monitor sensors, and use advanced programming techniques like data wires and variables.
Fifty sample programs and more than 85 programming and building challenges will spark your imagination as you follow detailed building instructions to create a series of eight innovative robots:
* Explorer, a roving vehicle
* Discovery, a robot that uses sensors to navigate around a room and follow lines
* Shot-Roller, a robotic defense system that can shoot in any direction
* Strider, a six-legged walking creature
* SmartBot, a robot you’ll use to explore advanced programming techniques
* The Snatcher, a robotic arm that grabs, lifts, and moves objects autonomously
* The Hybrid Brick Sorter, a machine that sorts LEGO bricks by color and size
* CCC, a compact chimney climber
This is a perfect introduction for anyone new to building and programming with the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 set. With this book as your guide, you’ll be building your own out-of-this-world creations in no time!
about the author
Laurens Valk is a member of the MINDSTORMS Community Partners, a select group of MINDSTORMS experts who help test and develop new NXT products. He has been inventing robots with the MINDSTORMS NXT sets since their introduction, and one of his robot designs appears on the NXT 2.0 packaging. Valk is a co-author of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT One-Kit Wonders (No Starch Press) and a contributor to The NXT STEP blog (thenxtstep.blogspot.com). He lives in the Netherlands, where he teaches robotics.
RequiRements: ONE LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 SET (LEGO SET #8547)
THIS BOOK IS NOT AUTHORIZED OR ENDORSED BY THE LEGO GROUP.
