Maximum Lego NXT: Building Robots with Java Brains - Softcover

Brian Bagnall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0973864915 ISBN 13: 9780973864915

Publisher: Variant Press, 2007

Synopsis

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 Sųren 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

About this title

About the Author

Brian Bagnall is the coauthor of the Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2
Study Guide and author of Core Lego Mindstorms Programming and On the Edge.
He is a Sun-certified Java programmer who has worked for IBM and AT&T, and
a key programmer of leJOS, a Java SDK for Lego NXT. He lives in Winnipeg,
Manitoba.

Edition details

• Publisher: Variant Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0973864915
• ISBN 13: 9780973864915
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 524