"With over 125 new models, the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor Idea Book will unleash your imagination and open up limitless possibilities for unique robotic designs. You'll learn how to build basic mechanisms with motors and sensors, robots that can walkor drive themselves, and practical tools for lifting, opening doors, drawing, and even launching projectiles. Each model is paired with an illustrated list of parts and multi-angled color photographs,...

"Learn the basics of Mindstorms, from building your first robot to programming its first movements."--

"Find out how to use the Mindstorms brick and display, and learn how a robot can tell light from dark and sense touch.-- This book focuses on the EV3 programmable brick, which is used to create robots far more complex than the ones in previous books. Hixon covers the value-- and problems-- of loops in programming, and looks at some icons in the EV3 software than you can use to accomplish more complex things with your robots.

This book explores dozens of creative ways to build amazing mechanisms with the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 set. Each model includes a list of the required parts, minimal text, and colorful photographs from multiple angles so you can re-create it without the need for step-by-step instructions. You'll learn to build cars with real suspension, steerable crawlers, ball-shooters, grasping robotic arms, and other creative marvels. Each model demonstrates simple...

In kindergartens these days, children spend more time with math worksheets and phonics flashcards than building blocks and finger paint. Kindergarten is becoming more like the rest of school. In Lifelong Kindergarten, learning expert Mitchel Resnick argues for exactly the opposite: the rest of school (even the rest of life) should be more like kindergarten. To thrive in today's fast-changing world, people of all ages must learn to think and act creatively...