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O'Reilly Mindstorms book [was RE: Memory]
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 9 Feb 1999 02:18:49 GMT
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Jonathan Knudsen <jonathan@oreilly.com+Spamless+>
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At 11:12 AM 2/9/99 +1300, you wrote:
> [whimsical discussion of O'Reilly animals and
> marketing professionals snipped]
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> ObLego: When is this book due to come out? what's in it? The Mindstorms
> software? NQC? custom Firmware? Is it all software or does it look at
> construction as well?
We don't have a schedule yet; I'm only about
two chapters into it so far. Please don't ask our
customer service people about it--they will
get annoyed with me. The book is designed
to tell you how to max out your RIS kit--basically
it picks up where Lego's documentation leaves off.
I'll talk about NQC, for sure, and making your own
sensors, how to find Pitsco and S@H, online
resources, nifty mechanical things like directional
transmissions and adder-subtractors. My goal
is to present every cool thing you could possibly
do with Mindstorms in one book. (It's subtitled
"The Ultimate Guide," like our PalmPilot book.)
I'm still undecided about legOS, but I'm thinking
about having a chapter on it. I'm structuring the
book around actual robots that you can build, so
I will cover both mechanical design and software.
I'd be glad to hear any suggestions. I'm still in the early
stages so you can influence the content if you wish.
If I'm offending anyone by discussing my own book
on this list, let me know and I'll restrict the talk to
private emails.
Thanks,
Jonathan
--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | RE: O'Reilly Mindstorms book [was RE: Memory]
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| (...) A chapter or two on inter-RCX communication would go down a treat. "extend your RCX's IO capabilities by buying another of the suckers" This could extend to a whole range of books "The ultimate guide to Town Jr" with chapters like How to (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: O'Reilly Mindstorms book [was RE: Memory]
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| (...) Man, this is too cool. IMO, ORA is the world leader in high-quality geek books, but I never would have guessed they would publish a book on LEGO MS. How did it all come about? I guess the bottom line is that ORA in business to sell (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | RE: O'Reilly Mindstorms book [was RE: Memory]
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| (...) Yup, I shelled out the bucks for two sets--I definitely want to write about at least one dual-RCX project. (...) I'm no lawyer, but my basic attitude is that anything on the list is public domain. I've gotten a lot of topic ideas from this (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: O'Reilly Mindstorms book [was RE: Memory]
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| (...) Ha ha! Me neither, and I work for them. (...) That was exactly my feeling. I sent some mail to Tim O'Reilly a long time ago when I started reading articles about Mindstorms. I thought it would be cool to do a book, and that the people that (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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