10 Cool Lego Mindstorm Dark Side Robots Transports and Creatures: Amazing Projects You Can Build in Under an Hour

by Mario Ferrari and Syngress

Book Overview

LEGO MINDSTORMS let you design and program robots that can do just about anything!The Dark Side Developer's Kit is targeted towards the young or novice LEGO MINDSTORMS designer, age 9 and up, although... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931836590
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Syngress
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.9" x 0.6" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Assemble your own Star Wars action robots

The robots described in detail in this book are really cool, and once you look at them, your patience will be tried until you get to the assembly stage. Constructing the robots is easy, each one is split into a series of small steps where the parts to be added are listed in a caption and the placement of the parts on the robot are highlighted on a second figure. We have all faced situations where we had to follow directions to put something together and struggled to make sense of the diagrams. In this case, that should not be a problem, these are some of the most understandable diagrams that I have ever seen. The robots are all from the Star Wars series of movies and associated novels, which makes them even better. Most people with an interest in robots have seen the Star Wars movies, so it is wondrous to watch the robot gradually grow into something you have seen in action. Lego Mindstorms is a robot kit that can be effectively used in class work from elementary school up though graduate school. In this book you will learn how to build some of the best robots, which will appeal to students throughout this spectrum.

Excellent

I used to use my Darks Side kit as a glorified source of extra parts for my Mindstorms robots. Not any more. I was amazed by the robots that these guys put together with only these parts. Would have been nice if it was all in colour. I'm in the process of modifying these to work with an RCX brick. Check it out, its worth it.

Ton of Fun!

Picked this one up for my son, and found it was a ton of fun for him- and me! The projects are well thought out, very well built, and really add to the overall Mindstorms experience. Not being a LEGO pro :) we've been sort of stuck generating new ideas for robots- this has opened up a whole new world.

awesome

Ive been waiting for a book like this for a while. These 10 robots (11 if you count the free bonus one you get off the web) are all awesome! The book is set up a lot like the constructopedias that come with the Mindstorm kits so they are really simple to make. I think there are some sequels to this for other kits which I am going to get.

Wow. Good stuff.

All of the authors who worked on this were names I recognized from the LEGO community. They didn't dissapoint. These robots are amazing, especially givne the limits of working only with the DSDK kit. Check out the LOu in particular. It's not really clear what he does until you build him and turn him on, but you won't be dissapointed :-) Check out the free download of a bonus chapter that JP Brown put together--yeah, that's the same JP Brown who built the Rubik's Cube solving machine a few years back. All in all a great book.