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Advanced NXT: The Da Vinci Inventions Book (Technology in Action)
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Advanced NXT: The Da Vinci Inventions Book (Technology in Action) |
Author: Matthias Paul Scholz
Published: 2007-06-25 |
List price: $34.99
Our price: $23.09
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As of: November 20th, 2008 04:01:59 PM
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Boy, you better have a LOT of Lego
I was really looking forward to this book, and when I got it I enjoyed reading it. The problem is I can't build any of the projects. Each needs very many regular Lego pieces so if were not heavily into Lego as a kid you are out of luck. I priced the cost of the Lego bits ala carte for the simplest project, the revolving bridge, and it would be about $20. And not just that. Each project requires more axels and pulleys and gears that come with the NXT set. So unless you have a bunch of friends that also have NXT you are out of luck. So I am very disapointed. I wish they had put the hardware requirements on the cover and I would have saved my money.
 assembly schematics
I haven't used the book yet, but as I flipped through, I was disappointed by the quality of the assembly schematic reproductions. I'm not sure we will be able to follow them.
hard to read
There are some great ideas in this book but the pictures for construction are not that clear, with pieces hidden behind other pieces. Directions are for the more advanced of Lego's Robot builders. If you already know what you are doing, you can jump right in and go to it. For the novice or the beginner its next to impossible. I love the Da Vinci connection but clean up the photographs so that more people can take advantage of the idea.
 Relating Old and New
Just the idea behind this book makes it worth purchasing. Taking the ideas of one of the greatest minds in history and applying it to a brilliant robotic platform is genius. Relating the robots to Da Vinci's designs is a great learning experience for old and young. My 8 year-old is becoming quite a fan of Leonardo due to the use of this book.
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br /The bots in the book are great, and the potential for extensibility is even greater. There are quite a few new NXT books out this year and this is definitely one of best especially if you are interested in tying the evolution of physics and mechanization to modern technology.
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br /I highly recommend this book. If you are running a Lego Mindstorms team or teaching robotics using the NXT platform, do yourself a favor and pick up this book, it's a great way to enhance your curriculum.
Bad pictures
I have enjoyed many of the books in this series, but was severely disappointed when I got this one. The ideas are great - and would be really useful to my students, if the pictures that accompanied them were in any way able to be seen clearly. I tried and failed to build several of the models after my students all expressed frustration at trying to figure out what was being portrayed.
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