Maximum Lego Nxt: Building Robots with Java Brains - Brossura

Bagnall, Brian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0973864915 ISBN 13: 9780973864915

Casa editrice: Variant Pr, 2007

Riassunto

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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L'autore

Brian Bagnall is the author of several computer books for Variant Press, McGraw-Hill, Prentice-Hall PTR, and Syngress Publishing. He is a key developer of leJOS, the Java SDK for LEGO MINDSTORMS. Brian is the author of the groundbreaking Core LEGO MINDSTORMS Programming, which has been translated into French and Japanese. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Developer and co-author of the Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Study Guide.

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Book by Bagnall Brian

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• Editore: Variant Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0973864915
• ISBN 13: 9780973864915
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 505