The long awaited EV3 building and programming book by Laurens Valk is finally available! It’s called “The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Discovery Book” and it’s 370+ pages of awesomeness. Where to start? The book has been printed in full colour, which is a massive improvement over his previous book and a real pleasure to read. The colours are very bright and ...
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When Damien Kee asked me to write a review for his latest book, the first thought that came to my mind was “Uhm, I am not a teacher! How am I supposed to have an opinion on this?”. Truth be told, I have done quite a few workshops in classrooms with kids, adults and a mix of both. So while ...
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A little while ago, I was asked by Packt Publishing to review one of their new e-books called “Instant LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3” by Gary Garber. It’s a small (82 pages) e-book that is “A concise guide full of step-by-step recipes to teach you how to build and program an advanced robot.” It aims to be usable for both an experienced ...
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As most of my readers know, I am not much of a studded LEGO builder, most of my creations are Technic studless LEGO. When Starch approached me to review this book I wasn’t sure how I was going to be able to do build any of the models in it. Lucky for me, the models in this book are mostly ...
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When I first heard this book was coming out a few months ago, I couldn’t wait for it to become available on Amazon. Fate would have it be that last week I was contacted by No Starch Press to ask if I was interested in reviewing this book. It took all of about 1 ms to make up my mind; of course ...
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