- Out-of-Stock

Laurens Valk
If you have your own MINDSTORMS set, you already know that the manual attached to it describes only a piece of knowledge that you will need to build and program the robot yourself. However, with the book of explorers, you will begin an adventure that will consume you for a long time!
This guide will help you build your dream machine quickly. Fifty example programs and nearly ninety programming and construction tips will awaken your imagination! Many step-by-step instructions will help you create complex devices that move, use sensors, and use advanced techniques such as data and variable data cables.
If you are a novice user, with this book you will learn the basics of creating a structure. If you already have some experience, you will quickly develop your programming skills. This is a real treat for designers of all ages. Regardless of whether you have several or several dozen years - all the way forward to a new adventure!
Valuable tips for explorers can also be found at http://www.discovery.laurensvalk.com .
Laurens Valk is a member of MINDSTORMS Community Partners (MCP), an elite MINDSTORMS expert group that helps in testing and developing new NXT products. He creates robots from the MINDSTORMS NXT sets from the moment they were on the market, and one of the robots of his project was presented on the NXT 2.0 box.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments (XV) Introduction (XVII)
PART I BEGINNINGS 1. Gathering parts for the robot (3)
2. Building the first robot (7)
3. Creating and modifying programs (23)
4. Working with programming blocks: motion, sound and display (31)
5. Expectation, repetition and other programming techniques (43)
PART II. BUILDING AND PROGRAMMING OF ROBOTS FITTED WITH SENSORS 6. Understanding the sensors (55)
7. Using touch, color and rotation sensors (67)
8. Sagittarius: a robotic defense system (87)
9. Walker: a six-footed walking insect (121)
PART III CREATING ADVANCED PROGRAMS 10. Using data hubs and data cables (149)
11. Using data blocks and data cables in loops and switches (171)
12. Using variables, constants and playing games on NXT (183)
PART IV ADVANCED ROBOT PROJECTS 13. Gripper: autonomic robotic arm (197)
14. Hybrid block sorter: sorting blocks by color and size (237)
15. KAK: Compact chimney climber (265)
Appendix Diagnosing and solving connectivity problems (285)
Index (291)
Neodymium rectangular magnet with dimensions of 30x10mm a and a height of 2 mm.
No product available!
Printed circuit board and programmed circuit for unipolar stepper motor driver. AVT1985 A +
No product available!
No product available!
No product available!
No product available!
ROSA3D filament made of high-quality PLA granules. 0.8 kg of filament with a diameter of 1.75 mm is wound on the spool. ROSA3D PLA Starter Black
No product available!
No product available!
No product available!
No product available!
No product available!
No product available!
No product available!
No product available!
No product available!
Sensor module for electromyography (EMG). Allows muscle activity to be studied and used to control devices. SparkFun DEV-21265
No product available!
ZYBO Z7-20 (Zynq Board) is a set with a programmable system from the Xilinx Zynq-7000 family - Z-7020. Digilent 410-351-20
No product available!
Laurens Valk