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Lego: Building Robots
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Building Robots with Lego Mindstorms includes an 8-page, full color insert which contains detailed photography of some impressive robots that readers will be able to build after reading the book. The photos ... detail the more complex electrical and construction challenges.
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Since 1963, Lego pieces have been manufactured from a strong, resilient plastic known as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, or ABS. Precision-machined, small-capacity molds are used, and human inspectors check the output of the molds, to eliminate significant variations in color or thickness. Worn-out molds are encased in the foundations of buildings to prevent their falling into competitors' hands. According to the Lego Group, about eighteen bricks out of every million fail to meet the standard required.[2] Only one percent of the plastic waste in Lego factories goes unrecycled.[3]
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This book demystifies the process of making a robot with which to participate in a robotic sumo event, specifically, a Lego Mindstorms sumo-bot. When the worlds of Mindstorms and robotic sumo collide, the result is more than amazing. By building and programming the sumo-bots described in this book, and understanding how their design and construction was planned, you will become a robotic sumo expert. This book will get you started by explaining the basic concepts of robotic sumo and sumo-bot construction.
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