The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Inventor's Guide [Paperback]

USDavid J. Perdue(http://www.davidjperdue.com/) has been inventing robots with MINDSTORMS since 2001. The author ofCompetitive MINDSTORMS: A Complete Guide to Robotic Sumo Using LEGO MINDSTORMS(Apress, 2004), he has also written for BrickJournal and Computing Unplugged. Perdue is an implementation delivery engineer for EMC, an information infrastructure provider. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Laurens Valkis a member of the MINDSTORMS Community Partners, and one of his robots appears on the NXT 2.0 box. Valk is the author ofThe LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book, a co-author ofLEGO MINDSTORMS NXT One-Kit Wonders(both No Starch Press), and a contributor to The NXT Step Blog. He lives in the Netherlands where he studies Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology.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 bestsellingUnofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guideis your key to designing, building, and programming robots with the NXT 2.0 set.

You'll learn practical building techniques, like how to build sturdy structures and use gears, and gain a solid understanding of the set's 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:
–Inventor-Bot, a fast, simple, modular vehicle with treads
–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 diffl£&