Advanced NXT The Davinci Inventions Book.pdf

Advanced NXT

The Da Vinci Inventions Book

■■■

Matthias Paul Scholz

Advanced NXT: The Da Vinci Inventions Book

electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval

system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher.

ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-59059-843-6

ISBN-10 (pbk): 1-59059-843-1

Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Trademarked names may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence

of a trademarked name, we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark

owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark.

LEGO® and MINDSTORMS® are trademarks or registered trademarks of the LEGO Group in the United

States and other countries. Apress, Inc., is not affiliated with the LEGO Group, and this book was written

without endorsement from the LEGO Group.

Lead Editors: Matthew Moodie, Jim Sumser

Technical Reviewer: Jim Kelly

Editorial Board: Steve Anglin, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Jonathan Gennick, Jason Gilmore,

Jonathan Hassell, Chris Mills, Matthew Moodie, Jeffrey Pepper, Ben Renow-Clarke,

Dominic Shakeshaft, Jim Sumser, Matt Wade, Tom Welsh

Project Manager: Kylie Johnston

Copy Edit Manager: Nicole Flores

Copy Editor: Jennifer Whipple

Assistant Production Director: Kari Brooks-Copony

Production Editor: Laura Cheu

Compositor: Susan Glinert Stevens

Proofreader: Lori Bring

Indexer: Carol Burbo

Artist: April Milne

Cover Designer: Kurt Krames

Manufacturing Director: Tom Debolski

Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 233 Spring Street, 6th Floor,

New York, NY 10013. Phone 1-800-SPRINGER, fax 201-348-4505, e-mail orders-ny@springer-sbm.com , or

visit http://www.springeronline.com .

For information on translations, please contact Apress directly at 2855 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 600,

Berkeley, CA 94705. Phone 510-549-5930, fax 510-549-5939, e-mail info@apress.com , or visit http://

www.apress.com .

The information in this book is distributed on an “as is” basis, without warranty. Although every precaution

has been taken in the preparation of this work, neither the author(s) nor Apress shall have any liability to

any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly

by the information contained in this work.

The source code for this book is available to readers at http://www.apress.com in the Source Code/Download

section.

To the memory of Stanislaw Lem (1921–2006)

Contents at a Glance

About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

■ CHAPTER 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

■ CHAPTER 2 A 3,000-Foot Look at NXT Programming Environments . . . . . . . . . 29

■ CHAPTER 3 The Armored Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

■ CHAPTER 4 The Catapult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

■ CHAPTER 5 The Revolving Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

■ CHAPTER 6 The Aerial Screw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

■ CHAPTER 7 The Flying Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

■ CHAPTER 8 Outlook: What NXT? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

■ APPENDIX A Installation and Configuration of the Programming

Environments Used in the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

■ APPENDIX B Leonardo’s Letter of Application to the Duke of Milan . . . . . . . . . 357

■ APPENDIX C Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

■ APPENDIX D Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

■ INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika: