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The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 set offers hundreds of building elements, programming software, and powerful electronics that you can use to create amazing robots. But where do you begin?This eagerly awaited second edition of the bestselling Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventors Guide is your key to designing, building, and programming robots with the NXT 2.0 set.Youll learn practical building techniques, like how to build sturdy structures and use gears, and gain a solid understanding of the sets NXT-G programming language. A series of projects new to this edition offers step-by-step instructions for building and programming six robots, each of which can be built with just one NXT 2.0 set, including:
- Sentry-Bot, a robot guard that shoots balls at intruders
- Table-Bot, a vehicle that uses its antennae to avoid falling off a tabletop
- The Jeep, a four-wheeled vehicle that avoids obstacles and follows lines
- The Lizard, a large walking robot that uses the color sensor to detect and respond to different colored balls
- The Printer, a stationary robot that uses a pen or marker to draw letters, words, and shapes on paper
Additional resources include the Piece Library, which contains basic information on the more than 80 types of LEGO pieces in the NXT 2.0 set, and the Quick Reference, which lists the 34 types of standard programming blocks. So go ahead. Grab your NXT 2.0 set, fire up your imagination, and see what you can invent with The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Inventors Guide.
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I dedicate this book to Jay and Mary Jo Perdue.
With very solid how-tos, an awesome programming section as well as cool robots, the Inventors Guide has a lot to offer both brand-new users as well as experienced builders. Best of all, the models described in the book use parts from a single LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT starter set, so you dont have to be a power user to get started building.
G EEK D AD
This book is an excellent introduction to LEGO robotics and, frankly, is what should have come in the box with the NXT kit. If you want to learn about NXT robots, you need to get this book.
C OMPUTING U NPLUGGED
I recommend this book highly for its in-depth tutorials, the visual schematics and the quality of the reading that makes the information well understood. No one said building robots was easy but with this book, you will learn and go further than you thought you could achieve.
M AC C OMPANION M AGAZINE
Perdue takes you step by step into the MINDSTORMS NXTs rich, fascinating little world of pegs, gears, and electronic parts.
T HE B OSTON G LOBE
David J. Perdue is an implementation delivery engineer for EMC, an information infrastructure provider. He is the author of two other LEGO books, including the bestselling first edition of this book published in 2007 and Competitive MINDSTORMS: A Complete Guide to Robotic Sumo Using LEGO MINDSTORMS (Apress, 2004). David has a degree in Management Information Systems from Liberty University and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he enjoys spending time with family and friends, discovering coffee shops in the Twin Cities, and writing about technology. David maintains his personal website at http://www.davidjperdue.com/ and a list of NXT books at http://www.booksnbots.com/ .
Laurens Valk contributed .
Tim Rueger is an avid LEGO hobbyist and robotics enthusiast. He has worked as an analog chip designer at Cirrus Logic (formerly Crystal Semiconductor) in Austin, Texas, since 1997. He earned a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1991. His wife, Shelley, graciously tolerates his varied choices in hobbies and his peculiar sense of humor. Tim enjoys mentoring home-school students in LEGO robotics competitions, including FIRST LEGO League, Robofest, and other local contests. His favorite LEGO creation is an all-LEGO floating-arm trebuchet capable of launching payloads over 40 feet. He hopes to someday defeat Steve Hassenplug in robotic sumo.
Christopher R. Smith (aka Littlehorn) is a senior quality assurance inspector in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL) at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He has been designing LEGO MINDSTORMS robots since rediscovering the LEGO product in 1997, which led to joining the LEGO MINDSTORMS Developer Program for the NXT system. He enjoys contributing to the LEGO community by facilitating a supportive and challenging environment for enthusiasts worldwide.
Ive been involved with this book since 2006 when I began working on the first edition. Since then Ive had the opportunity to meet a number of readers at various events and to exchange email with hundreds of others. Hearing from readers all over the world has been a great encouragement and makes all my effort on this project worthwhile. So, my first thanks go out to all the readers who made the first edition a bestseller and this second edition possible.
Id also like to thank Bill Pollock, the founder of No Starch Press, for once again giving me the opportunity to write this book. His knowledge of the publishing industry and the competence of his staff helped to make the first edition a success and allows No Starch Press to produce such high-quality publications.
Id like to thank Laurens Valk for contributing the robots in of this book. As my busy schedule limited my ability to complete the revision of the Inventors Guide , I asked Laurens to come up with some amazing new projects for the book. The resulting robots and their building and programming instructions are absolutely top-notch. Thanks, Laurens, for the creativity and hard work you invested in these projects.
Id also like to thank Dave Parker for helping with the revision of the NXT-G chapters ().
Finally, Id like to thank my familyspecifically Jay and Mary Jofor their encouragement throughout the process of revising this book. Thanksyou guys are the best.
When the LEGO Group commenced the MINDSTORMS series in 1998 with the release of the Robotics Invention System (RIS), it might have wondered what the outcome of LEGO-based robotics sets would be. Any ambiguity about the success of the MINDSTORMS series soon vanished, however, as the RIS sparked incredible sales, publicity, and enthusiasm around the world. Over the next eight years, MINDSTORMS inspired a multitude of fan websites, numerous robotic competitions, and more than 40 unofficial books based on the series.
During this time, the LEGO Group continued to expand the MINDSTORMS series with a variety of innovative products. The Robotics Discovery Set, Droid Developer Kit, Dark Side Developer set, Vision Command set, two updated versions of the RIS (1.5 and 2.0), and numerous expansion packs for the RIS made their appearances from 1998 to 2001. And then the flow of new MINDSTORMS products came to an abrupt halt.
As the years 2002 to 2005 failed to reveal significant developments within the MINDSTORMS product line, fans became concerned, eventually asking the unthinkable: Is MINDSTORMS being phased out? By the end of 2005, some fans had clearly given up hope.
Nevertheless, the LEGO Group had no intentions of retiring the MINDSTORMS series. It had been hard at work developing yet another phenomenal product: the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT set. LEGO finally revealed this secret project in January 2006 at the International Consumer Electronics Show, slating its release for fall of that year.
As the highly anticipated NXT set became available in various countries throughout the latter part of 2006, fans quickly recognized the set as the most powerful MINDSTORMS release to date. It implemented many exciting new features, including motors with built-in rotation sensors ( servo motors ), a variety of sensors, the NXT microcomputer, hundreds of other building elements (that is, LEGO pieces), the NXT-G programming software, and more.
Some LEGO fans expected to see a few expansion packs for the NXT set released in the following year. That didnt happen. Instead, three years later in 2009, LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0a revised version of the original NXT setwas announced and then officially released in August 2009. NXT fans began comparing the 2.0 set to its predecessor as soon as the new kit landed on their doorsteps, and I did some comparisons of my own.
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