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Jin Sato's LEGO MINDSTORMS: The Master's Technique
by Jin Sato
Product Group: Book
Publisher: No Starch Press (2002-04)
ISBN: 1886411565
EAN: 9781886411562
UPC: 689145115659
Dewy Decimal #: 629.892
Paperback: 434 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: LP1254
Condition: Very Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ robotics kits make it easy and fun to build working robots with LEGO bricks, motors, and a programmable controller. In his landmark book, Jin Sato introduces the basic principles of robotics engineering, including how to plan and build robots with tires, legs, and grasping hands. Readers learn how to build Sato's famous robotic dog MIBO as well as four other robots.
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Customer Reviews
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Great for the expert mindstorms developer
Rating  (2)
Date: 2004-07-02
35 out of 40 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a very well written book. You can tell from the text that Mr. Sato is an expert at Mindstorms. Unfortunately, the book covers chapter after chapter of project parts and programming code that do not ship with the $200 LEGO Mindstorms: Robotics Invention System 2.0 718 piece kit. If you are really into Mindstorms and want to hand-code your programs outside the supplied GUI interface using downloaded languages, this is a great book. But, if you just purchase the Robotics Invention System 2.0 kit, then this book is not going to help much unless you download more software from non-lego web sites, and purchase even more lego hardware. I returned the book.
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An essential reference for all dedicated Lego hobbyists
Rating  (5)
Date: 2002-06-07
11 out of 13 customers found this reveiw helpful
In Jin Sato's Lego Mindstorms: The Master's Technique, software researcher and Lego expert Jin Sato offers an incredible, "user friendly" guide to making wondrous creations with Lego Mindstorms. Written by the creator of the MIBO robotic dog, individual chapters include computer programming and source code to craft balanced and functional assembly designs; putting together working gears step-by-step; and explicit instructions on how to create one's own MIBO or other grand projects, and more! Jin Sato's superbly presented, deftly written, 364 pages instructional guide is an essential reference for all dedicated Lego hobbyists.
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Well worth the wait
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-04-19
11 out of 13 customers found this reveiw helpful
GET THIS BOOK!I've been waiting for this book for a few months now and I must say it was well worth the wait -- even if all you want to do is to build MIBO. Jin Sato really is the master, and it's alot easier to have him tell you how to build MIBO than it is to figure it yourself. It's quite a complicated model but an amazing challenge. The introductions to the various software are great too, and it's great to see things through Sato's eyes.
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