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Apress (June 25, 2007) PDF | 369 pages | 23mb(rar) Advanced NXT: The Da Vinci Inventions Book/by Matthias Paul Scholz (Author) Description This amply illustrated book is about building some of Leonardo da Vincis most famous inventions with LEGOs new breathtaking robot technology, the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT. In this book, you will revive such fascinating devices as the flying machine, the aerial screw, the revolving bridge, the double leaf spring catapult, and the armored car, five centuries after their creation by the great Renaissance engineer. Using some of the most advanced programming environments for the NXT, you will make robots that work, move, and respond the way Leonardo intended his original inventions to do 500 years ago. By engineering the LEGO models contained in this book you will not only become acquainted with the MINDSTORMS NXT technology but also with strategies to build advanced robots with NXT and to program them using different state-of-the-art NXT programming languages such as NXT-G, NXC, RobotC, pbLua, and leJOS NXJ. For all five robots, historical background information is provided

Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 8:03pm CEST by rwdfox

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Springer; 1 edition (September 1, 2008) PDF | 190 pages | English | 22.5mb(rar) The Art and Science of Interface and Interaction Design/by Christa Sommerer (Editor), Lakhmi C. Jain (Editor), Laurent Mignonneau (Editor) Description Artists and creators in interactive art and interaction design have long been conducting research on human-machine interaction. Through artistic, conceptual, social and critical projects, they have shown how interactive digital processes are essential elements for their artistic creations.