10 Cool LEGO Mindstorms
Dark Side Robots, Transports, and Creatures
Kevin Clague, Søren Rolighed, Miguel Agullo, Hideaki Yabuki
Résumé
Ok. You bought the kit for yourself or one of your kids.
You used the instructions in the box to build a robot or
two. Now what? You may not be ready to design and build
your own robots, but you don't want to build the same robot
over again. This book is the perfect way to build
additional projects from the same kit, and then to
improvise and design your own. Ten Cool Projects. One hour
each. Perfect.
Robots Included:
Ludic Ordinance Units, (LOUs), are usually put together to
create entertainment for the troops, but they usually end
up serving as moving targets for Imperial
Stormtroopers.
Scorpion Assassin Droid a silent and deadly hunter.
Tracking its intended target with a variety of sensors, it
moves stealthily to within striking distance.
Draigons swoop from the sky to attack their prey, carrying
off to their lairs to be devoured those creatures
unfortunate enough to become their victims.
Droid Transporters can carry up to a dozen Droids over
rough terrain and deliver them where they are needed.
X-Stormer is a prototype of what would eventually become
the AT-AT. Imperial engineers worked for many years to
create the X-Stormers.
Super Battle Droid is a biped that walks on two legs by
shifting its weight from side to side and moving its legs
forwards and backwards.
Go-Rillas are fast biped robots often used by the smugglers
and bounty hunters of the galaxy to defend their hideouts.
What they lack in intelligence they more than make up for
in speed and brute strength.
Imperial All-Terrain Scout Transport, better known as the
AT-ST, is a small, agile, armored biped that can carry two
Imperial Stormtroopers.
Orbital Defense Cannons, guided by their large targeting
radar dish, can shoot down even the largest Imperial Star
Destroyers and Corellian Cruisers.
Imperial Hounds serve as both companions for the troops and
as powerful tools of war on the battlefields of the
Empire.
- Foreword
- Robot 1 Super Battle Droid
- Robot 2 Orbital Defense Cannon
- Robot 3 Imperial AT-ST
- Robot 4 Go-Rilla
- Robot 5 X-Stormer
- Robot 6 Droid Transporter
- Robot 7 Draigon
- Robot 8 Scorpion Assassin Droid
- Robot 9 Ludic Ordinance Unit (LOU)
- Robot 10 Imperial Hound
L'auteur - Kevin Clague
Kevin Clague graduated in 1983 from Iowa State University with a bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Engineering. For the past 18 years, Kevin has worked as a Diagnostic Engineer at the Amdahl Corporation. For the last two years, he has also acted as a Senior Staff Engineer doing verification work at Sun Microsystems on their Ultra-Sparc V RISC processor. Kevin has two major hobbies: theatrical lighting and LEGO Mindstorms. Kevin has been playing with the RIS 1.5 for several years now and is currently working on LPub, an application to revolutionize the world of creating online LEGO building instructions.
L'auteur - Søren Rolighed
Søren Rolighed is a data warehouse consultant, working on building and maintaining databases for telco-data in the largest data warehouse in Denmark. Like almost all Danish kids, he started playing with LEGO at an early age. As an adult he has continued with his passion for LEGOs, and the introduction of the LEGO Technics and LEGO Mindstorms kits opened up a whole new world of possibilities!
L'auteur - Miguel Agullo
Miguel Agullo was born in Spain but has lived abroad for long periods of time, from the Far East to South America, from central Europe to the U.S. His wide range of interests is responsible for his work in such diverse industries as finance, media, aeronautics, and antique trading. Trained as a journalist and impressed with the candor and resourcefulness of the online LEGO community, Miguel tries to give something back by regularly updating his Web site with instructions for new models, new Ldraw pieces, and anything he thinks is worth sharing with other LEGO aficionados. His building interests revolve around robotics, and specifically biomechanics: creating mechanisms that mimic the behavior of natural devices such as legs or arms. His creations include biped walkers, robots that jump, and a fully functional (including a brake!) LEGO motorcycle.
L'auteur - Hideaki Yabuki
Hideaki Yabuki works as a Media Activist promoting new technologies to the next generation. To him, robotics is the most important of these technologies. He was first introduced to LEGO robots in 1985 by a friend of his who had recently returned from the MIT Media Lab with some LEGO Dacta products. His robot in this book, the Scorpion, is the result of much trial and error on his part.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Syngress |
| Auteur(s) | Kevin Clague, Søren Rolighed, Miguel Agullo, Hideaki Yabuki |
| Parution | 06/11/2002 |
| Nb. de pages | 244 |
| Format | 20,5 x 25,5 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 620g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9781931836593 |
| ISBN13 | 978-1-931836-59-3 |
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