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by: Martijn Boogaarts, Jonathan A. Daudelin, Brian L. Davis, Jim Kelly, Lou Morris, Fay and Rick Rhodes, Matthias Paul Scholz, Christopher R. Smith, Rob Torok See Larger Image List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $19.77 You Save: $10.18 (34%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $19.29 Third Party New Price: $18.33 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 629.892 EAN: 9781593271503 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 1593271506 Label: No Starch Press Manufacturer: No Starch Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 350 Publication Date: August 28, 2007 Publisher: No Starch Press Sales Rank: 4630 Studio: No Starch Press Related Items: The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide LEGO Mindstorms NXT LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming Guide (Technology in Action) Building Robots with LEGO Mindstorms NXT LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: The Mayan Adventure (Technology in Action) see more Editorial Review: Product Description: If you're serious about having fun with LEGO robotics, you've come to the right place. The team behind The NXT STEP blog--the authoritative online source for MINDSTORMS NXT information and advice--has packaged its considerable skills and experience in this book. Inside, you'll find some of the team's best ideas for creating cool and sophisticated models, including instructions for eight robots you can build yourself. Follow along with the MINDSTORMS NXT experts as they explain the fundamentals of programming and design, accompanied by CAD-style drawings and an abundance of screenshots that make it easy for you to master the MINDSTORMS NXT system. You'll get an overview of the NXT parts (beams, sensors, axles, gears, and so on) and clear instructions for combining them to build and program working robots. The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book delves into the complexities of the NXT programming language (NXT-G) and offers tips for designing and programming robots, using Bluetooth, creating an NXT remote control, troubleshooting, and much more. Here are just a few of the robots you'll learn to build in The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: RaSPy, a robot that plays Rock, Scissors, Paper 3D PhotoBot, a robot that will help you take photographs that can be converted into 3D images Slot Machine, complete with flashing lights and a lever ScanBot, a robot that scans black-and-white pictures and displays the images on the NXT's LCD Beach Buggy Chair, a roving, rambling robot CraneBot, a crane-like grabbing robot LEGO fans of all ages will find this book to be an ideal jumping-off point for doing more with MINDSTORMS NXT. The only ingredient you need to add is your imagination! Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Very Informational! You would need this book if you own the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Kit. Can't get it work without it! Rating: - Pictures and programming problems The problem with this book is it has black and white photos of black and white pieces. They don't give a close up of what your adding to your structure. Writing is too small to look at without a magnify glass. Programming was screwed up in some places. Rating: - Very Interesting Book On NXT Robots Lots Of good information on NXT G-code,Bluetooth programming for the NXT, and an informative guide to designing your NXT bots.I thought this book was well worth the money. The "LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming Guide (Technology in Action) is a very good intro to this book. Rating: - Great book The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build I read this book and I really enjoyed it. This was the first Mindstorms book that I read and it was really easy to understand and got me off to a quick start. The only reason that I didn't give it 5 stars was that the graphics and text are printed on an off white background and it made it a little harder to read and the graphics themselves are all black and white and some of them were a little hard to figure out the robot ... Read More Rating: - Wonderful Book That Needs Color!!!!! 'The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build' is an absolutely wonderful book with one MAJOR flaw in that the entire book is in black and white. Packed with 16 chapters written wonderfully with exciting examples and content, this would have been a easy 5 star recommendation but I simply cannot do that. Legos are bold, bright, and full of color, the decision to publish this in black and white was a terrible one. I understand this decision was made to no doubt save costs, but it ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Qualifying Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS Software - Computers & Internet - Subjects - Books - General Software - Computers & Internet - Subjects - Books - General AAS Computers & Internet - Subjects - Books - General AAS Puzzles & Games - Entertainment - Subjects - Books - General