ISBN:
9780973864915
Complete Book Title:Maximum Lego NXT: Building Robots with Java Brains
Author:Brian Bagnall
Binding Type:Soft Cover
Copyright Date:2007
Number of Pages:505
Size:7 x 9.25 in
Book Subject:Games
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Table of Contents
Over two dozen fun and challenging projects using the next generation of LEGO MINDSTORMS and the Java programming language
LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT is an incredible new kit for building and programming your own robotic inventions. "Maximum Lego NXT" introduces a diverse set of projects, building tips, programming code, complete 3D rendered building instructions and hundreds of illustrations to help you realize your robotic dreams.
Using Java , the most popular and easy to use programming language available, this book will give you endless entertainment and exploration. It introduces the new LEGO NXT kit, including the NXT intelligent brick and Bluetooth . "Maximum NXT" includes:
- Easy to follow instructions by the author of "Core LEGO MINDSTORMS Programming"
- Explanations for all available sensors and expansion products available for the NXT kit, including unique projects interfacing a video camera, cell phone, GPS, data gloves, and many more
- An exciting collection of 14 robots, including a chess playing robot, an exoskeleton for your hand, a Mars Rover, a robotic arm you can control through the Internet, a 3D object scanner, soccer robots, and many more
- Introduces over two dozen in-depth programming projects including navigation, mapping, precise robotic arm control, voice control and global localization
- Artificial Intelligence concepts including Vision analysis, Rodney Brooks' Subsumption Architecture, and Reinforcement Learning
- Exciting projects that use third-party sensors like compass, tilt sensor, and port expanders
- A full chapter on building with the new LEGO stud-less brick paradigm.
- A complete tutorial on programming Java
- How to install a free development environment for leJOS NXJ, the Java Virtual Machine for the NXT
- Foreword by S ren Lund, Director of LEGO MINDSTORMS
Maximum LEGO NXT is the ultimate LEGO MINDSTORMS guide:
- Meet NXT
- leJOS NXJ
- Java for Primates
- The leJOS NXJ API
- LEGO Parts
- Building 101
- Bite into Bluetooth
- Grabby Robots
- Sound
- Robots with Vision
- Standing Tall
- Localization
- Mappin g
- Path-finding
- Hands & Exoskeletons
- Network Robotics
- Scanning
- Behavi or-Based Robots
- Expanding the NXT
- GPS & Harsh Terrain
- Speech
- Appendice s
- Index
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