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Re: New Book - Core Lego Mindstorms
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Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:19:17 GMT
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Hi Brian
The list of the covered topics makes your book very promising. I'm going to
pre-order it right now.
Good luck!
Mario
"Brian Bagnall" <bbagnall@mts.net> wrote:
> As some of you know I've been working on a Lego Mindstorms book for Java
> programmers. The official release date is March 15, 2002 so it seems like • a
> good time to announce it. The intent of this book is to get Java • programmers
> interested in Lego Mindstorms robotics. The title of the book is "Core • Lego
> Mindstorms Programming", part of Cay Horstmanns Core series with Prentice
> Hall PTR. Originally this was going to be published along with Mario
> Ferrari's book but ended up moving over to a different publisher. I'm not
> sure what the final page count is yet since it's at the printers but I do
> know it's over 500 pages.
>
> Briefly, the following topics are covered in the book:
> - an introduction to the Robotics Invention System
> - other kits and products in the Mindstorms universe
> - a feature overview of leJOS, the Java platform for the RCX brick
> - installation instructions for leJOS
> - setup instruction for a powerful IDE
> - an introduction to Java
> - differences between leJOS Java and Sun's Java
> - the leJOS API (how to access motors, sensors, and other RCX components)
> - an encyclopedia of the 129 unique Robotics Invention System parts
> - building common Lego structures
> - Behavior Control programming, a technique of programming insect level,
> behavior based intelligence
> - basic navigation concepts
> - navigation using timing techniques
> - navigation using rotation sensors
> - building a simple proximity detector using only the parts in the kit
> - building an accurate distance sensor using electronics
> - building a wall follower
> - building a compass sensor
> - navigating with the compass sensor
> - PC to RCX communications using Java Streams
> - RCX to RCX communications using Java Streams
> - controlling the RCX brick from a PC across the Internet
> - setting up a simple server and JSP page to control the RCX (using a • Bean)
> - an advanced overview of leJOS (Contributed by Jose Solozano)
> - memory saving strategies
> - using the leJOS JVM to run other languages, such as NetRexx
> - porting leJOS to other processors (Contributed by Jose Solozano)
> - ordering sensors, kits, and other parts
> - utilities available for leJOS
> - web resources
>
> I'd like to express my sincere gratitude to the following people:
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> Jose for providing the technical review of the book
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> Paul Andrews and Juergen Stuber, who have been leading the leJOS project
> since Jose "semi-retired" from the scene
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> Philippe "Philo" Hurbain and Claude Baumann for helping so much with the
> electronics projects
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> Cay for allowing this book to become part of his Core series of books.
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> Greg Doench for coordinating the creation of this book
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> Harold Cabrera and Jeff Gillespie for rendering the instructions for the • robots
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> Finally, enormous thanks to Lego for the product that started it all!
>
> Brian Bagnall
> http://www.mts.net/~bbagnall
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| Thanks for the kind words Mario! I just want to mention to others who might be ordering to please use the Amazon Associates link on our leJOS web page: (URL) profits generated through this program will be used to obtain a domain name and hold (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| As some of you know I've been working on a Lego Mindstorms book for Java programmers. The official release date is March 15, 2002 so it seems like a good time to announce it. The intent of this book is to get Java programmers interested in Lego (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics) !
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