Wonderful Book That Needs Color!!!!!: 'The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build' is an absolutely wonderful book with one MAJOR flaw in that the entire book is in black and white. Packed with 16 chapters written wonderfully with exciting examples and content, this would have been a easy 5 star recommendation but I simply cannot do that. Legos are bold, bright, and full of color, the decision to publish this in black and white was a terrible one. I understand this decision was made to no doubt save costs, but it shouldn't have been published (no matter how good the content is) in this form. Some books would benefit from color, some books require it and this is one of those cases. If you enjoy Legos and want to learn how to use Mindstorms NXT and all the fun, amazing things you can do with them this book will show you how, but I would wait for version 2.0 of this book with color. Not only is the black and white unfavorable, it's downright hard to follow. Great content, great layout, thumbs WAY down for no color **** RECOMMENDED
Great book: The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build I read this book and I really enjoyed it. This was the first Mindstorms book that I read and it was really easy to understand and got me off to a quick start. The only reason that I didn't give it 5 stars was that the graphics and text are printed on an off white background and it made it a little harder to read and the graphics themselves are all black and white and some of them were a little hard to figure out the robot designs because of it. But dont let this keep you from getting this great robotics book. (...)
Pictures and programming problems: The problem with this book is it has black and white photos of black and white pieces. They don't give a close up of what your adding to your structure. Writing is too small to look at without a magnify glass. Programming was screwed up in some places.
Very Interesting Book On NXT Robots: Lots Of good information on NXT G-code,Bluetooth programming for the NXT, and an informative guide to designing your NXT bots.I thought this book was well worth the money. The "LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming Guide (Technology in Action) is a very good intro to this book.
Very Informational!: You would need this book if you own the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Kit. Can't get it work without it!
| Author: | Martijn Boogaarts | | Author: | Jonathan A. Daudelin | | Author: | Brian L. Davis | | Author: | Jim Kelly | | Author: | Lou Morris | | Author: | Fay and Rick Rhodes | | Author: | Matthias Paul Scholz | | Author: | Christopher R. Smith | | Author: | Rob Torok | | Binding: | Paperback | | Dewey Decimal Number: | 629.892 | | EAN: | 9781593271503 | | Format: | Illustrated | | ISBN: | 1593271506 | | Number Of Pages: | 350 | | Publication Date: | 2007-08-28 |
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