Definitive Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS

Definitive Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS

The second edition to Baum's best-selling and highly praised book, Dave Baum's Definitive Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS. The LEGO MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention System kit enables anyone to build a programmable robot with an assortment of LEGO pieces that snap, slide, and click into place. With this exciting second edition from MINDSTORMS expert Dave Baum, readers will be able to take their robotics experiments to a new level! Baum takes the reader step-by-step through the entire process of building and programming MINDSTORMS robots using both LEGOS RCX code and the author's own programming language Not Quite C (NQC). Definitive Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS, second edition has been updated with new programs that take advantage of the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention System 2.0.

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Dave Baum is the creator of NQC, a powerful language for programming Mindstorms robot. He holds a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Baum is currently a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Motorola.

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Part I: Fundamentals;
1: Getting started;
2: The RCX;
3: Introduction to NQC;
4: Construction;

Part II: Robots;
5: Tankbot;
6: Bumpbot;
7: Bugbot;
8: Linebot;
9: Dumpbot;
10: Scanbot;
11: Tribot;
12: Onebot;
13: Steerbot;
14: Diffbot;
15: Brick Sorter;
16: Vending Machine;
17: Communication;
18: Using the Datalog;
19: Roboarm; Afterword;
Appendix A: MINDSTORMS Sets;
Appendix B: Supplementary Parts;
Appendix C: Programming Tools;
Appendix D: NQC Quick Reference;
Appendix E: Online Resources.