{"id":782,"date":"2007-12-12T08:07:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T13:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/php.astolfo.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2009-12-12T08:07:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T13:07:40","slug":"building-robots-with-lego-mindstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plastibots.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/12\/building-robots-with-lego-mindstorms\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Robots with Lego Mindstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syngress.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plastibots.com\/image\/bldbots_reviews.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"141\" align=\"abscenter\" \/><\/a>A while back, I received an email from Mario Ferrari informing me that he was going to send copy of his new book, Building Robots with Lego Mindstorms.\u00a0 When I received the book, I immediately cracked it open and skimmed all the sections.\u00a0 My first reaction was that the book being some 600 pages in length contained a plethora of information similar to that of other Lego Mindstorms books written by other Lugnet members.\u00a0 Once I had a chance to go through the book in more detail, I realized that it offered much information about the various building techniques and programming languages used to build robots.\u00a0 The book offers a wide variety of pictures, new ideas, and new approaches that I will find useful when building my next challenge.\u00a0 The appendix offers a great resource of links to other user-sites where even more great ideas and info can be found.\u00a0 If you are a beginner to intermediate Mindstorms user, you will find this book exciting and informative.\u00a0 Considering myself between intermediate and advanced, I found the book exciting to read and informative but was hungry for some advanced building ideas and instructions.\u00a0 One thing that I would like to see for future writers of Mindstorms-type books would be a building instructions section, or possible a CD containing drawings\/instructions for advanced projects.\u00a0 Good work guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I received an email from Mario Ferrari informing me that he was going to send copy of his new book, Building Robots with Lego Mindstorms.\u00a0 When I received the book, I immediately cracked it open and skimmed all the sections.\u00a0 My first reaction was that the book being some 600 pages in length contained a plethora of information similar to that of other Lego Mindstorms books written by other Lugnet members.\u00a0 Once &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plastibots.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/12\/building-robots-with-lego-mindstorms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","has_no_thumb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pK41j-cC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plastibots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plastibots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plastibots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastibots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastibots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastibots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plastibots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastibots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plastibots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}