Advanced NXT The Da Vinci Inventions Book [Paperback]

The popularity of NXT and the success of The Da Vinci Code are combined in this fascinating book. Projects for building and programming five of Leonardo's most famous inventions are covered in detail: the tank, the helicopter, the catapult, the flying machine, and the revolving bridge.

This book is written for serious NXT programmers and covers the most popular programming environments available today. The book is abundantly illustrated and includes sample code and countless best-practices strategies.

Advanced NXT: The Da Vinci Inventions Book details projects for building and programming five of Leonardo's most famous inventions: the tank, the helicopter, the catapult, the flying machine, and the revolving bridge.

Robots have been a source of fascination to me since my childhood. That was during the time of the first Star Wars trilogy, with very humanlike robots appearing on the screen, such as C-3PO, who still reminds me of some friends of mine, and not so humanlike others, such as R2-D2 (who nev- theless also reminds me of some people I know). There were the books of Stanislaw Lem and Douglas Adams that discuss the philosophical questions related to the creation of artificial beings. Do androids dream of electric sheep? I still wonder. Yet all my attempts to build something similar on my own failed. The gizmos Id assembled from wood and plastic not only looked strangely different from the ones I had in mind, but also didnt do anything (besides fall apart frequently). The time was not ripe for building robots of your own, unless you had a degree in electronic engineering, high soldering capabilities, and a well-endowed bank account to acquire all the special electromechanical parts required.A table of contents is not available for this title.

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This book describes how to mechanize in Lego five designs by Leonardo da Vinci. The book starts with a shlóÁ