Gary Garber

Learning LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Key Features

Book Description

This book is for the hobbyists, builders, and programmers who want to build and control their very own robots beyond the capabilities provided with the LEGO EV3 kit. You will need the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 kit for this book. The book is compatible with both the Home Edition and the Educational Edition of the kit. You should already have a rudimentary knowledge of general programming concepts and will need to have gone through the basic introductory material provided by the official LEGO EV3 tutorials.

What you will learn

• Design a robot for optimum navigation and place sensors for optimal calibration
• Control multiple robots through a master robot
• Decipher the advanced programs developed by LEGO
• Account for weight and balance issues in your design
• Calibrate the sensors using buttons on the robot
• Utilize core programming concepts such as loops, case structures, calculations, variables, and arrays
• Enhance your programs with proportional and PID control

Who this book is for

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783985036
• Artikelnr.: 56829476

Autorenporträt

Gary Garber teaches physics, math, and engineering at Boston University Academy. Gary is the president of the New England Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers and has led dozens of professional development workshops in education at both the local and national levels. Gary runs the Boston University FIRST Robotics program. He has run and hosted numerous robotics workshops in VEX, Tetrix, and LEGO platforms. He has run dozens of LEGO robotics tournaments and spoken on robotics education at both local and national conferences. His robotics team has worked with Engineers Without Borders, NASA, and the National Science Teachers Association on a variety of engineering and education projects. He is currently an educational consultant, working to develop new software tools for the classroom, at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, which is a pioneer in LEGO Robotics Education. He is the author of Instant LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, Packt Publishing. He currently resides in Massachusetts, US. When he is not playing with LEGO, robots, or toy trains, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Catalina, and their two children, Alejandro and Leonardo.