Product Description

The kit includes two books. BUILDING ROBOTS WITH LEGO MINDSTORMS is a bestseller providing readers with a fundamental understanding of the geometry, electronics, engineering, and programming required to build your own robots. Authors Mario Ferrari and Giuli Ferrari, world-renowned experts in the field of Lego Mindstorms robotics, share their unrivaled knowledge and expertise of robotics and provide a series of chapters detailing how to design and build the most exotic robots. The authors also provide detailed explanations of how to integrate Lego Mindstorms kits with other Lego programmable bricks such as Scout and Cybermaster, as well as with non-robotic Lego Technic models. PROGRAMMING LEGO MINDSTORMS WITH JAVA teaches readers how to program their robotic creations and bring them to life using the newly released Java Virtual Machine for Lego Mindstorm programming. Until recently, the only languages available to program Lego Mindstorms were NQC, pbForth, and legOS.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1849087 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Binding: Paperback
• 1000 pages

About the Author
Mario Ferrari is known as the "DaVinci" of the Lego World. Mario was the creator of emulegOS, which was the first third-party operating environment created for programming the RCX brick, which is the heart and soul of Lego Mindstorms. Currently, he works for EDIS SpA, (www.edis.spa) a production company specialized in the field of collectible stickers and trading cards (producing for Topps group, Upperdeck, and many other stickers/cards publishers worldwide).
Giulio Ferrari is a computer programmer, who along with his brotherMario, maintains the most frequently visited Lego Robotics site on the Web. Giulio and Mario's tic-tac-toe playing robot received the highest award at MIT's recent MindFest event, which is an annual gathering of world-renowned Lego enthusiasts.
Dario Laverde is currently a developer at ActionWorld, Inc. where he participated in the design and implementation of the PlayLink Internet Gaming System. Previous to ActionWorld, he worked at InterWorld, Inc.where he developed a chat system (server and clients). Before that, he was asenior software and electrical engineer at Loral Electronics Systems for a number of years.

Customer Reviews

the ultimate in lego
marion ferrari does it again! excellent addition in this series, and very in-depth explainations and complete instructions. great for the experienced builder, or anyone interested in this field.

Product NOT a kit - two heavy books!
Thoroughly disgusted with this order. Thought I was ordering a kit to make some robots, but received two huge books for my grandson's birthday present. When I sent them back, I was charged $11.00 in postage and then did not receive my full refund because I did not fill out the correct papers which I never did see. Not happy at all with this! Did not get what I wanted and did not get my money back!