Overview
- LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: Mars Base Command provides readers with a collection of eight challenges to complete—all centered around a Mars Base theme—by designing and building robots using the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kit.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Congratulations! You’re on Mars Base Alpha, the first human outpost on the red planet. Don’t relax, though. It’s not all roses and unicorns up here. Mars isn’t called "The Bringer of War" for nothing! You’ve just been rained on by a meteor shower and it’s up to you—you!—to put your LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics skills to work to save the day, and the base! And that’s only the beginning of the challenges that lie ahead.
LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: Mars Base Command is a book of challenge. It’s about challenging yourself to design and build robots to solve problems, tough problems. Taking a similar approach to best-selling LEGO author James Kelly’s other books, this book presents a series of four challenges in the setting of mankind’s first-ever manned base on the planet Mars. Each challenge begins with a backstory to set the scene. You’re given instructions for constructing a playing field, including devices that your eventual robot must manipulate. Your job is to build a robot that will execute the challenge and garner you the most points.
The book requires the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Education Resource Set. Scoring sheets are included that allow for the book’s use in educational and group settings. Teachers can base lesson plans around the different concepts taught in each challenge. Groups and clubs can choose to run mini-competitions in which teams or individuals compete against each other in a race to save the base. LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: Mars Base Command is an excellent choice for an individual, a group, or a teacher wishing to learn about and have more fun with LEGO’s best-selling robotics platform.
Please note: the print version of this title is black & white; the eBook is full color.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: Mars Base Command
Authors: James Floyd Kelly, Christopher Smith
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3805-8
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: James Floyd Kelly and Christopher Smith 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-3804-1Published: 22 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-3805-8Published: 02 February 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 364
Topics: Hardware and Maker, The Computer Industry