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 Søren 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 · Mapping · Path-finding · Hands & Exoskeletons · Network Robotics · Scanning · Behavior-Based Robots · Expanding the NXT · GPS & Harsh Terrain · Speech · Appendices · Index
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