Dave Baum

Definitive Guide to Lego Mindstorms

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apress
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-59059-063-8
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 181mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 736g
• ISBN-13: 9781590590638
• ISBN-10: 1590590635
• Artikelnr.: 08675597

Autorenporträt

Dave Baum is a principal staff engineer at Motorola. With the advent of LEGO MINDSTORMS, Baum was able to combine two of his favorite pastimes: programming and building with LEGO. He then developed Not Quite C (NQC), a powerful language for programming MINDSTORMS robots that has been widely accepted by advanced users. Visit Dave's personal website at BaumFamily.org/NQC.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Fundamentals: Getting started; The RCX; Introduction to NQC; Construction.-PartII: Robots: Tankbot; Bumpbot; Bugbot; Linebot; Dumpbot; Scanbot; Tribot; Onebot; Steerbot; Diffbot; Brick Sorter; Vending Machine; Communication; Using the Datalog; Roboarm.- Appendix A: MINDSTORMS Sets.- Appendix B: Supplementary Parts.- Appendix C: Programming Tools.- Appendix D: NQC Quick Reference.- Appendix E: Online Resources.- Index.