ISOGAWA Yoshihito book now available
Please see our post from last week for sample pages from the book.
The PDF file is now available and the author requests a small fee of $10 if you find the book useful and/or wish to help support more of his work.
You can get the book here.
The PDF file is now available and the author requests a small fee of $10 if you find the book useful and/or wish to help support more of his work.
You can get the book here.
Comments
This book is phenomenal! There are SO many things in this book, you need to take the time to build some of them. Just trying to browse it, and my brain started overloading and trying to short-circuit on me.
The author covers gears, waling robots, wheeled. Magnets and pneumatics. Lights, funky devices to change the action based on the direction of the motor, all kinds of gearing devices (including "shifting" to change gear speeds, or actions).
This book definitely warrants the $10 recommended donation.
The only real "complaint" that I have, is that most of these devices can't be built (following the screenshots) from the retail or educational NXT kits. You could easily adapt many of them though, so that isn't a real drawback.
Richard
Very worthwhile to download, and the 10 bucks are well invested.
Domo arigato gozaimashita, Isogawa-sama!
It you look, you'll notice very few pieces of the same color, side-by-side.
Makes it really easy to figure out what pieces were used, and how the connect together.
If a color-scheme had been used, this would make the piece recognition harder.
I didn't think of that.
Yet, we also may notice the stupendous Japanese sense for combining functionality with form here again.
This one uses symbols for magnetics, pneumatics, etc... very easy to understand.
Jim
He's got me $10, no question.
--
Brian Davis
I'll be paying $20 - one for each download: one for the desktop and one for the laptop.
Joe Meno
Yoshihito is a great and very talented LEGO builder. I enjoyed posting his creations in the old LEGO MINDSTORMS forums (CAD Depots) years ago in that far off...well...before blogs anyway.
Chris
PF..(HaHa, I mean P.S.) Piles of building examples and techniques are what is needed these days. Extra little bits of Technic Tips. Sort of like the RIS Constructopedia.
Chris
As Eric has explained, I used pieces of different color, side-by-side. I'm very pleased he noticed it.
This comment was translated by my wife. Even my wife's English is not perfect, we are sorry that we cannot understand a 100% of nuance of your comments.
We, however, enjoy reading your comments. Thank you very much.
Yoshihito Isogawa