Book Review - Getting Started in Electronics
I try to keep 90% of my posts on the topic of NXT, so I hope you'll forgive me for getting slightly off topic here. MAKE magazine had a great review of this little workbook and I bought a copy. If you are a parent or teacher with a child or student who is expressing an interest in electronics, THIS is the book you need to check out.
It's written in the format of a lab book (the text looks like hand-written notes) and is VERY easy to read and understand. I wish I had found this book years ago when I was a student. It's got 100+ projects in it that are fairly easy to build using common electronics components found at most Radio Shack or similar-type stores.
I've read reviews in other places of books by Forrest M. Mims III and am very impressed with his style of writing and I can see why students are a prime target for this book.
While it isn't a true NXT book, any student interested in furthering his or her studies with robotics is going to have to invest some time in learning more about electronics - this book will jump-start you in that direction.
It's written in the format of a lab book (the text looks like hand-written notes) and is VERY easy to read and understand. I wish I had found this book years ago when I was a student. It's got 100+ projects in it that are fairly easy to build using common electronics components found at most Radio Shack or similar-type stores.
I've read reviews in other places of books by Forrest M. Mims III and am very impressed with his style of writing and I can see why students are a prime target for this book.
While it isn't a true NXT book, any student interested in furthering his or her studies with robotics is going to have to invest some time in learning more about electronics - this book will jump-start you in that direction.
This 128 page book is $20US and can be ordered here.
Comments
Any recommendations on mechanics?
What about physics? I here Physics by Design" is quite good
http://www.legoeducation.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=1386&bhcp=1
Jim
If we can, I think we should narrow the scope to books that would provide background for NXT or other types of robotics projects.
Although someone had invented a NXT teleporter a while back so maybe quantum theory should be covered as well :)
Anyone remember that video?
Matthias still brags about his ability to time travel forward or backwards for .000000000153 seconds.
We can't prove he's wrong, but he can't prove he's right :)
Jim
Maybe they should compare notes :)