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Re: Building Robots with Lego Mindstorms (long)
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Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:05:08 GMT
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Greetings, Mario!
Quick question: the Syngress site lists your book as 656 pages, hardcover
with downloadable version -- Amazon lists it as 448 pages, paperback and
mentions no downloadable version. The coverart is different for both, so can
we assume two editions? If yes, what might be "missing" from the one
available at Amazon?
Cheers!
Carl Jagt
In lugnet.announce, Mario Ferrari writes:
> Dear friends,
>
> during the last months I mentioned in a few occasions (in lugnet.robotics)
> that my brother Giulio and I were writing a book. Now the time has come to
> officially present it.
>
> The title of the book is Building Robots with Lego Mindstorms, and as the
> title promises it deals much more with building techniques rather than with
> programming. We talked about programming too, because as you know it's often
> impossible to separate the topics when dealing with robotics, but we
> provided just a few examples and in many occasions described only some
> possible algorithms instead of supplying full code. We think that there are
> many good books that already cover the topic very well.
>
> ...
>
> Best regards
> Mario Ferrari
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| (...) hardcover (...) can (...) Hi Carl, the page at Amazon is still based on pre-publishing info, and the cover is just a temporary cover. I suppose they're going to update their database very soon. There is just one version of the book, which is (...) (23 years ago, 8-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Building Robots with Lego Mindstorms (long)
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| (...) In a similar vein, the Syngress site lists the price (without shipping) as $19.95 while Amazons is listing it (without shipping) as $34.96 (supposedly reduced from $49.95), while an Australian online bookstore Dymocks lists it as about $40 (...) (23 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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