How to construct and program a variety of creatures, vehicles, and machines with LEGO MindStorms pieces.

Projects include (this list is comprehensive) a car, a centipede, a vehicle that skates, a dinosaur, a train that runs on tracks, a walker with articulated legs, a segmented vehicle that will climb over obstacles, an analog clock, a six-legged bug that can be made to turn right and left, and a very (very) cool car, in which the motor is used not for direct propulsion, but to compress air that propels the vehicle forward.

Provides step-by-step instructions for building ten different robots using a Lego collection and the Mindstorms kits, including a rolling car, centipede, dinosaur, climbing robot, train and beetle.

The hobby creations are illustrated in 250 CAD drawings.

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