Definitive Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS 2nd Edition

Description

The LEGO MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention System kit enables anyone to build programmable robots with an assortment of LEGO pieces that snap, slide, and click into place. In this exciting second edition from MINDSTORMS expert Dave Baum, youll be able to take your robotics experiments to a new level.

Baum takes you step-by-step through the entire process of building and programming MINDSTORMS robots using both LEGO's RCX code and the author's own, more powerful programming language, Not Quite C (NQC). This edition has been updated with new programs that take advantage of the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention System 2.0 and includes instructions for building 14 different robots including Tankbot, Bugbot, and Brick Sorter.

With Definitive Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS, Second Edition, you will master the challenging yet always fun creation of your own robots from the ground up!

CONTENTS:

Part I: Fundamentals

Chapter 1: Getting started

Chapter 2: The RCX

Chapter 3: Introduction to NQC

Chapter 4: Construction

Part II: Robots

Chapter 5: Tankbot

Chapter 6: Bumpbot

Chapter 7: Bugbot

Chapter 8: Linebot

Chapter 9: Dumpbot

Chapter 10: Scanbot

Chapter 11: Tribot

Chapter 12: Onebot

Chapter 13: Steerbot

Chapter 14: Diffbot

Chapter 15: Brick Sorter

Chapter 16: Vending Machine

Chapter 17: Communication

Chapter 18: Using the Datalog

Chapter 19: Roboarm

Afterword

Appendixes

Appendix A: MINDSTORMS Sets

Appendix B: Supplementary Parts

Appendix C: Programming Tools

Appendix D: NQC Quick Reference

Appendix E: Online Resources