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Lego Crazy Action Contraptions: A Lego Contraptions Book (Klutz): A Lego Contraptions Book (Klutz) 28 reviews
Don Rathjen
Klutz Press Inc.,U.S., 1999
legos to go
My ten year old loves legos ... and I love peace and quiet in the car! This product worked out great as a "trip treat", the bag was great so he could keep track of them. We use an aluminum cake pan with a plastic cover for a lego desk/holder in the car, but the book with a bag made it so he could take it into the hotel and restaurant with no fuss ... and isn't that what every mom really wants ...
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Virtual LEGO: The Official LDraw.org Guide To LDraw Tools for Windows6 reviews
Tim Courtney, Ahui Herrera, ...
No Starch Press, 2003
Excellent Book for People of All Levels of Experience
This book is excellent in almost every respect. It does a great job of introducing the reader to the LDraw suite of tool for making LEGO creations on your computer. Though this book is geared toward beginners, it is also a great tool for those intermediate users looking to expand their LDraw horizons. I especially liked the sections on creating building instructions. Additionally, all the ...
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Extreme Mindstorms: An Advanced Guide to Lego Mindstorms6 reviews
Dave Baum, Michael Gasperi, ...
Topeka Bindery, 2000
Extreme Mindstorms ... Extremely Excellent
Want to take your Mindstorms creations to new hieghts? Go beyond RIS? The ya have to get this book, a follow up to Dave Baum's Definitive Guide to Lego Mindstorms. You will not only see more NQC programming, but pbForth as well, and an excellent section on constructing your own sensors. If your the kid who doesn't grow up, an engineer at heart, and the owner of more than one RIS set because ...
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The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide13 reviews
David J. Perdue
No Starch Press, 2007
Fantastic manual to the Mindstorms NXT
I'm a coach of a FIRST LEGO League team and I bought this book to help my son "get to the next level." I am making this book mandatory for every team member next season! It is informative, yet easy to read. It covers all the bases from good robot design to programming explanations. I can't recommend it enough!
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Creating Cool MINDSTORMS NXT Robots5 reviews
Apress, 2008
A Very Cool, Highly Recommended NXT Book
If you're searching for some exciting NXT projects and ideas--or would simply like to build JohnNXT, a replica of the famous Johnny 5 robot--you will enjoy Daniele Benedettelli's book Creating Cool MINDSTORMS NXT Robots. The book presents helpful ideas that you can use in your own inventions and carefully integrates them in a variety of robots with detailed building instructions. In fact, these ...
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LEGO Mindstorms Masterpieces: Building Advanced Robots5 reviews
Mario Ferrari, Ralph Hempel, ...
Syngress, 2003
Great Addition To The Lego Mindstorms Community
After building many of the robots presented in Lego Mindstorms Masterpieces published by Syngress, I feel I am now qualified to give a fair personal assessment of this book. I have purchased many Lego Mindstorms books and each one has great ideas and a lot to offer. All books have shortcomings and room for improvement. How good a book is depends on how well it address the readers needs. My ...
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Core LEGO MINDSTORMS Programming: Unleash the Power of the Java Platform (Core Series)14 reviews
Brian Bagnall
Prentice Hall PTR, 2002
Best Mindstorms book I have purchased
This book is superior to "Programming Lego Mindstorms with Java."
It is well suited to both beginning and advanced programers. It covers languages basics, but still provides much info to experienced Java developers about robotics Design Patterns.
It also includes detailed instructions and pictures describing on basic robotic construction...things like how to turn a rotary motion to a linear ...
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FIRST LEGO League: The Unofficial Guide7 reviews
James Kelly, Jonathan Daudelin
No Starch Press, 2008
A great resource for any FLL team!
This is a great book for new coaches looking for advice on how to manage a team. But since it is written in a kid-friendly manner, it should also serve as an invaluable reference for rookie team members wondering where to begin. Veteran teams will benefit from this book as well, as it covers advanced building concepts for managing attachments and vehicle alignment.
The authors have ...
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LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: The Mayan Adventure (Technology in Action)21 reviews
James Floyd Kelly
Apress, 2006
Learning the process
The value of this book is not in the number of documented designs, but how it teaches you the process to come up with your own designs. It even does it in a much more entertaining way then my engineering classes did. Understanding the design process allows you to create any number of robots that do what you want them to do and this is an invaluable life skill. That is what this book teaches ...
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Building Robots with LEGO Mindstorms NXT4 reviews
Mario Ferrari; Guilio Ferrari; David Astolfo
Syngress, 2007
Inspirational
This book is just fantastic. Starts out with the basics for building strong stable robots, and moves on to more complex ideas. Great examples of robots throughout the book which will provide ideas for building your own masterpiece.
It doesn't have step by step instructions, and is more of an ideas book for NXT enthusiasts.
I'd recommend this for your home or Robotics club library.
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LEGO Mindstorms NXT Power Programming: Robotics in C4 reviews
John C. Hansen
Variant Press, 2007
Empowering resource for NXT fans
While the official NXT-G programming language included in the LEGO Mindstorms NXT set works well for many people, what if you want to increase your programming potential or simply prefer a text-based language rather than a graphical one? John C. Hansen's book provides the answer to both of these questions by teaching you how to program the NXT in NeXT Byte Codes (NBC) and Not eXactly C (NXC).
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Knights' Kingdom Reader (the Dark Fortress) Level 4 (Scholastic Readers)2 reviews
Daniel Lipkowitz
Scholastic, 2005
Continue the adventure
This is the third Scholastic Reader in the Lego Knights Kingdom series. Vladek is back, and the four knights have to stop him from taking over Morcia by confronting him at his Dark Fortress, and letting King Mathias' army into that fortress. There's a new king at the end of the story.
The same story is told in "The Lost Kingdom", which is an 8x8 book, but this is a fuller version ("Lost ...
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Extreme NXT: Extending the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT to the Next Level3 reviews, ...
Apress, 2007
Excellent!
I bought this book to get a better idea of how to safely interface my own circuits to the Lego Mindstorms NXT. In my opinion, you can't find a better book for this purpose. "Extreme NXT" contains the pinouts and proper usage of the NXT motor and sensor ports. It also provides a large number of the most useful homebrew sensor implementations, right down to parts lists containing part numbers for ...
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DK LEGO Readers: Castle Under Attack (Level 2: Beginning to Read Alone)3 reviews
DK Publishing
DK CHILDREN, 2000
Orchard Park, NY Mom
My six-year old son laughed out loud when he read this very funny book. It had an interesting and amusing plot about a good King and his family, and some nasty bad knights out to cause trouble. The book also has the little fact boxes on some pages which contain information about coats of arms, suits of armor, etc. I think any 6 or 7 year-old child would love this book. It's the best Dorling ...
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DK LEGO Readers: Mission to the Arctic (Level 3: Reading Alone)2 reviews
DK CHILDREN, 2000
Mission To The Arctic
My son really enjoyed this book! LEGOs is his favorite pastime. He really enjoyed seeing the characters which he plays with come to life. It is so hard finding books for boys in the age range 8-10 and this book helps fill in the some of that missing gap. I really liked the glossary in the back where scientific terms are introduce to children as they read about the LEGO adventure. I will be ...
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World of Lego Toys4 reviews
Henry Wiencek
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987
A great book of LEGO history.
I purchased this book a few years back mainly for the great illustrations of LEGO creations. But recently, I was taking a speech class and decided to do a speech on LEGO history, (because I like to be the odd-ball) and this book came in really handy. In fact, I didn't need any other sources of LEGO information other than what was contained in this book. The book takes the reader back to ...
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DK Readers: LEGO Rocket Rescue (Level 2: Beginning to Read Alone)2 reviews
DK Publishing
DK CHILDREN, 2000
Fine Reader
This is a fine, carefully written Reader. My son, who plays with Lego, loved both the story and the pictures. Children should be finished basic phonics before they read it, unless parents are prepared to give them considerable help. The reader includes words such as "scientists" and "special".
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Busy City (Lego Masterbuilders)4 reviews
Lester Troughton
Topeka Bindery, 2000
Best Lego in town
... Easy to follow, age appropriate directions. It comes with 50 interchangable pieces and a book with 44 different things to make. Each and every friend that shares the fun with him, asks us for one for their birthdays. I am impressed. This is a great toy, you will not be dissapointed.
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Knights' Kingdom: Quest for the Tower (Lego Knight's Kingdom)3 reviews
Michael Anthony Steele
Scholastic, 2006
Completely satisfied
This was purchased for my 3 grandsons - ages 9, 6 & 4. They are completely into Knights Kingdom "anything".
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Bionicle Boxed Set: Chronicles 1-4 ; Adventures 1-32 reviews
Greg Farshtey, C.A. Hapka
Scholastic, 2004
Nephew loved it for xmas last year
I gave this to my nephew with some bionicals and he loved having the books and the toys.
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