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LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 is a robotics platform that allows enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels to prototype their own smart robots. This book will walk you through six EV3 projects that demonstrate engineering concepts used in real world smart robots, which will help you master the EV3 and develop the skills necessary to build your own smart.

LEGO Mindstorms toys. --- Robots --- Design and construction. --- Programming.

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LEGO Mindstorms and SPIKE Prime are great products with vast capabilities, but are often so complex that many people don't know how to use them. LEGO provides a walk-through of a few projects to build, which are cool, but after building these many people get stuck on "now what?" This book answers that question by showing the underlying principles required to build their own ideas. This book is a hands-on tour of how machines work with LEGO-there's nothing like building a machine with your own two hands to understand how it works. It includes aspects of software engineering, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering. As parts and associated engineering concepts are presented, they will be shown in their practical use with graphical step-by-step assembly instructions. The concepts conveyed are mostly learned through building examples, with text explanation to reinforce the ideas being learned. Every engineering concept has a building example to go with it, in a quick build of less than 15 assembly steps. At the end of each chapter there's a project to tie the concepts of the chapter together of a little more complexity, involving 15 to 30 steps. These assembly steps are drawn with a computer aided design program that looks like the diagrams that LEGO produces for its products, so readers will be familiar with the look of the assembly directions. What You Will Learn • How to layout a Word Blocks or Python computer program from scratch • How LEGO building elements are meant to be assembled • How to manipulate the power source of a rotating shaft from an electric motor • How gears manipulate the speed and torque of a power train • Basic mechanisms (turntable, differential, cam, ratchet, etc.) to change the motion from a rotating shaft to a desired action a quick build of less than 15 assembly steps. At the end of each chapter there’s a project to tie the concepts of the chapter together of a little more complexity, involving 15 to 30 steps. These assembly steps are drawn with a computer aided design program that looks like the diagrams that LEGO produces for its products, so readers will be familiar with the look of the assembly directions. .

Makerspaces. --- Maker. --- Hacker spaces --- Hackerspaces --- Hacklabs --- Maker spaces --- Cooperative societies --- Engineering laboratories --- Engineering --- Experiential learning. --- LEGO Mindstorms toys. --- Experiments. --- Mindstorms toys --- LEGO toys --- Experience-based learning --- Learning, Experiential --- Experience --- Learning --- Active learning

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Congratulations! You’re on Mars Base Alpha, the first human outpost on the red planet. Don’t relax, though. It’s not all roses and unicorns up here. Mars isn’t called "The Bringer of War" for nothing! You’ve just been rained on by a meteor shower and it’s up to you—you!—to put your LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics skills to work to save the day, and the base! And that’s only the beginning of the challenges that lie ahead. LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: Mars Base Command is a book of challenge. It’s about challenging yourself to design and build robots to solve problems, tough problems. Taking a similar approach to best-selling LEGO author James Kelly’s other books, this book presents a series of four challenges in the setting of mankind’s first-ever manned base on the planet Mars. Each challenge begins with a backstory to set the scene. You’re given instructions for constructing a playing field, including devices that your eventual robot must manipulate. Your job is to build a robot that will execute the challenge and garner you the most points. The book requires the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Education Resource Set. Scoring sheets are included that allow for the book’s use in educational and group settings. Teachers can base lesson plans around the different concepts taught in each challenge. Groups and clubs can choose to run mini-competitions in which teams or individuals compete against each other in a race to save the base. LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: Mars Base Command is an excellent choice for an individual, a group, or a teacher wishing to learn about and have more fun with LEGO’s best-selling robotics platform. Please note: the print version of this title is black & white; the eBook is full color.

LEGO toys. --- Robots -- Design and construction. --- LEGO Mindstorms toys --- Models and modelmaking --- Robotics --- Robots --- Mechanical Engineering --- Business & Economics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Industries --- Industrial & Management Engineering --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Design and construction --- Programming --- LEGO Mindstorms toys. --- Programming. --- Design and construction. --- Robot programming --- Mindstorms toys --- Automata --- Automatons --- Computer science. --- Computer industry. --- Computer Science. --- The Computer Industry. --- Electronic industries --- Informatics --- Science --- Manipulators (Mechanism) --- Mecha (Vehicles) --- Computer programming --- LEGO toys --- Computer input-output equipment. --- Hardware and Maker. --- Computer hardware --- Computer I/O equipment --- Computers --- Electronic analog computers --- Electronic digital computers --- Hardware, Computer --- I/O equipment (Computers) --- Input equipment (Computers) --- Input-output equipment (Computers) --- Output equipment (Computers) --- Computer systems --- Input-output equipment

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Richard Moser shows how to use and upgrade toy bricks for the construction of a lightweight, low-cost, and easy to reproduce tensile testing setup. Tailored for the characterization of elastomers and stretchable electrodes, the setup is capable of performing stress-strain studies along with resistance-strain measurements. Based on the underlying theory of material deformation and rubber elasticity, the author applies the setup to mechanically characterize polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with different grades of stiffness. The versatility of the device is highlighted with the electromechanical characterization of stretchable thin film metal electrodes on PDMS. Applications of the author´s setup range from using it as an educational tool in practical physics and engineering courses over being showcase in scientific exhibitions to its utilization as an inexpensive and reliable laboratory tool. Contents Fundamentals of Elasticity Design of the Toy Brick Tensometer Stress/Resistance-Strain Measurements Target Groups Teachers and students in technical and applied sciences, with focus on stretchable electronics Executives and specialists in the field of plastics and polymer engineering and research The Author Richard Moser studied Technical Physics at Johannes Kepler University Linz and wrote his Master Thesis at the Soft Matter Physics Department (Institute of Experimental Physics) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Siegfried Bauer, where he is currently working on his PhD thesis.

Chemistry. --- Physical Chemistry. --- Structural Materials. --- Optical and Electronic Materials. --- Chemistry, Physical organic. --- Materials. --- Optical materials. --- Chimie --- Matériaux --- Matériaux optiques --- LEGO Mindstorms toys. --- Tensiometers. --- Chemistry --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Physical & Theoretical Chemistry --- Mindstorms toys --- Tensometers --- Physical chemistry. --- Structural materials. --- Electronic materials. --- Measuring instruments --- LEGO toys --- Optics --- Materials --- Engineering --- Engineering materials --- Industrial materials --- Engineering design --- Manufacturing processes --- Chemistry, Physical organic --- Chemistry, Organic --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Electronic materials --- Architectural materials --- Architecture --- Building --- Building supplies --- Buildings --- Construction materials --- Structural materials --- Chemistry, Theoretical --- Physical chemistry --- Theoretical chemistry

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This book will show you the difference between making a robot move and making a robot THINK. Using Mindstorms EV3 and LeJOS, an open source project for Java Mindstorms projects, you’ll learn how to create Artificial Intelligence for your bot. Your robot will learn how to problem solve, how to plan, how to learn, and how to communicate. Along the way, you’ll learn about classical AI algorithms for teaching hardware how to think, algorithms that you can then apply to your own robotic inspirations. If you’ve ever wanted to learn about robotic intelligence in a practical, playful way, Beginning Robotics Programming in Java with LEGO Mindstorms is for you.

Computer science. --- Microprogramming. --- Programming languages (Electronic computers). --- Computer Science. --- Hardware and Maker. --- Control Structures and Microprogramming. --- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters. --- LEGO Mindstorms toys. --- Robots --- Robotics --- Java (Computer program language) --- Design and construction --- Automata --- Automatons --- Mindstorms toys --- Object-oriented programming languages --- JavaSpaces technology --- Manipulators (Mechanism) --- Mecha (Vehicles) --- LEGO toys --- Computer input-output equipment. --- Informatics --- Science --- Computer hardware --- Computer I/O equipment --- Computers --- Electronic analog computers --- Electronic digital computers --- Hardware, Computer --- I/O equipment (Computers) --- Input equipment (Computers) --- Input-output equipment (Computers) --- Output equipment (Computers) --- Computer systems --- Computer programming --- Input-output equipment --- Microprogramming . --- Computer languages --- Computer program languages --- Computer programming languages --- Machine language --- Electronic data processing --- Languages, Artificial