Learn Engineering With Lego(r)
A Practical Introduction to Software, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-7185-0179-9 (ISBN)
Description
To go beyond the basic robots included in the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor kit, you need to make the expert choices of a professional engineer. In this hands-on introduction to the field, NASA veteran Grady Koch introduces you to real-world engineering techniques for working with motors, sensors, and software-using only the parts in the Robot Inventor kit. You'll build a ratchet, a tank drive vehicle, and much more as you learn how to write your own programs and algorithms with the Word Blocks and Python languages.
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Grady Koch is the author of several books about LEGO (R) and creator of hightechlego.com. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, over 30 years of experience as a research engineer at NASA Langley Research Center, and three patents in the field of LiDAR for studying the atmosphere. He has written or contributed to over 175 conference and seminar papers, including 13 peer-reviewed journal papers as first author. Throughout his career, Koch has worked with student interns and learned how to bridge the gap between a student's academic instruction and laboratory practice.