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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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Format:Paperback
I bought the Lego Mindstorms NXT set and decided i wanted to make something new. After owning one of Sony's legendary Aibo robot dogs, i spotted the picture of the Lego Mindstorms dog named MIBO on the front of this book, by Jin Sato, who was a Japanese engineer, now a software researcher living in Canada. Sadly this book uses only the old Mindstorms RIS kit from 1999. The currently available NXT kit is not featured in this book as it came much later. Still, this book is a good read and it may give you ideas for use with your current NXT kit, or if you have some spare Lego parts or an old RIS kit from 1999, you're well on your way to making something new.
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37 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Great for the expert mindstorms developer
2 July 2004
Format:Paperback
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.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
An essential reference for all dedicated Lego hobbyists
7 Jun 2002
Format:Paperback
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.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Well worth the wait
19 April 2002
Format:Paperback
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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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