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Huh, I hope that "Lego Mindstorms pour Les Nuls" will be soon available in France ;-) Waiting this great happening, I will stay with my Oreilly Unofficial Guide... -- Alexandre BEC laleks@free.fr (URL) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.books)
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(...) I felt a bit guilty after I posted my review because it was written with a lot of....well, let's just call it emotion. Rereading my opening phrase I realize there may be opportunity to take it out of context... (...) In case there is any (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.books)
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Ok, I'll answer my own question: (URL) I think I saw this a long time ago, but I had assumed that the "Mibo in Book!" link was referring to the Mibo on the cover of a Japanese magazine that Jin Sato had on display at Mindfest. I didn't realize it (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.books)
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I got Mindstorms for Dummies sent to me as soon as it was ready from Amazon, since I'm curious what my competition looks like. :) And I kept quiet for a while, but I'm glad you wrote something first, Ralph, because I feel the same way. I was (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.books)
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Where is this book? URL? I have Joe Nagata's book (japanese version) and have the english book on order, but I didn't know that Jin Sato had a book! I met him at Mindfest and asked him to write a chapter for my book, but then I never got around to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.books)
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(...) Pretty decent Designs. Did you know that with NQC you can program the SCOUT to do some REALLY cool stuff? I noticed you have a Gecko Cam. I've created a Camera Mount that uses the Scout and people can control it from the Internet. All you need (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.books)
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Checkout my web site (URL) for an original Scout model that uses the built-in behaviors. I call it a "Light Seeking Missle Lanucher". I've been playing with various combinations of the built-in behaviors to see what else I can come with. More in the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.books)
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"Michael Edwards" <medwards@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message news:G748AD.MAr@lugnet.com... (...) Looks good Michael -- I look forward to seeing content for all issues! Huw (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.books)
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Above says it all - Just opened on 19:00 GMT 13th Jan 2001 www.lugmag.co.uk Note There may be missing scans that I don't know of or its not display please let me know, and I will update the archive Also, full indexing will come soon, with full (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.books)
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(URL) this and the bn.com page are both unofficial at this point. I don't know how they got the info (maybe from scouring addison-wesley's site?) but it is there. The more "official" info (with cover shot, etc.) will be arriving later on. if you (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics)
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watch this space: (URL) cover, etc. should be up soon, as well as other goodies. this one still works, but it is the higher education link: (URL) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.books)
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(...) I assume you mean this model: (URL) like the look of it, but I'm not sure what is does. Can it lift, turn and drop? Scott A (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.books)
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tentatively March 2001 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Ben, when will your book be generally available? --Jack Gregory (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I've read an advance copy of this book (thanks Ben!) and recommend it *highly* in fact, I'll be buying 10 of them as soon as they are available, one for me, and one for each of my LEGO Robotics team members. I considered doing that with Dave Baum's (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(URL) just realized that there are some things at the above URL that should be clarified: 1) There are actually 30 robotics projects in the book. Its just that only 16 of them have programs in all 4 programming environments (rcx code, robolab, (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(URL) :) (...) And then there is my book, Creative Projects (...) advanced (...) THE (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I wouldn't say it's withering per say, it's more like it never really grew. It's whopping 400 bytes of user memory REALLY hampers it's abilities. Plus it's locked into it's current firmware and with it's limited ports it's destined to be a (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.books)
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(...) It almost seems as if the Scout is "withering on the vine." It's a cool little PBrick but there doesn't seem to be much specifically target at the Scout and the RDS. I have found that many of the models shown in the Mindstorms books can be (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.books)
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(...) My copy of Extreme Mindstorms just arrived and let me tell you, for the advanced inventor it's GREAT! If your into Custom Sensors and out of the way sensors and what not THIS IS THE BOOK. It's written by the leading developers of the RIS's (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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