- cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- about the author
- about the technical reviewer
- brief contents
- contents in detail
- acknowledgments
- introduction
- PART I getting started
- 1 collecting the equipment for your robot
- 2 building your first robot
- 3 creating and modifying programs
- 4 working with programming blocks: move, sound, and display
- 5 waiting, repeating, and other programming techniques
- PART II building and programming robots with sensors
- 6 understanding sensors
- 7 using the touch, color, and rotation sensors
- 8 shot-roller: a robotic defense system
- 9 strider: the six-legged walking creature
- PART III creating advanced programs
- 10 using data hubs and data wires
- 11 using data blocks and using data wires with loops and switches
- 12 using variables, constants, and playing games on the NXT
- using variables
- using constants
- playing a game on the NXT
- defining the variables
- step 1: displaying a target randomly
- step 2: waiting until a button is pressed
- step 3: storing which button is pressed
- step 4: comparing the position and button variables
- step 5: adjusting the score
- step 6: displaying the current score
- step 7: making the program repeat for 30 seconds
- expanding the program
- further exploration
- PART IV advanced robot projects
- 13 snatcher: the autonomous robotic arm
- 14 hybrid brick sorter: sort bricks by color and size
- 15 CCC: the compact chimney climber
- troubleshooting and solving connection problems
- companion website
- DISCOVER THE CAPTIVATING WORLD OF LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT 2.0!
about the author
Laurens Valk is a member of the MINDSTORMS Community Partners (MCP), a group of MINDSTORMS enthusiasts who help test and develop new NXT products. He has been inventing robots with the MINDSTORMS NXT sets since their introduction. Laurens enjoys designing robots that can be built with just one NXT set, making it easy for MINDSTORMS fans worldwide to follow his building instructions. One of his robot designs, Manty, appears on the back of the NXT 2.0 set’s box as a bonus robot. He is a coauthor of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT One-Kit Wonders (No Starch Press) and a contributor to The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Inventor’s Guide (No Starch Press). He’s also a contributor to the popular NXT STEP blog (http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com/). Laurens lives in the Netherlands, where he studies Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology, and he maintains his website about robotics at http://www.laurensvalk.com/.
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