Brick Labs

Sneak peak at the cover of a new book coming out soon.  Expected ship-date is November 2008.

The book contains 10 robots that can each be built with a single NXT kit.  Many of the robots have extra challenges for you to accomplish.

All the robots have high resolution digital instructions so you can build the models yourself.  There are also high-resolution screen-shots of the programming (using NXT-G) so you can create the programs yourself.

All the digital instructions were rendered using the same settings, so the images are all of the same excellent quality, even though there are eight different authors.

All of the authors are members of The NXT Step blog.

The complete author list:

• James Floyd Kelly
• Matthias Paul Scholz
• Christopher R. Smith
• Martijn Boogaarts
• Jonathan Daudelin
• Eric D. Burdo (Hurrah, that’s me!)
• Laurens Valk
• BlueToothKiwi
• Fay Rhodes (our editor, who we appreciate immensely)

I contributed one robot, called "The Hand".  It’s a robotic hand, 360 degree wrist rotation, open and closing of the fingers.  I’ve used it to pick up and poor a can of soda. :)

You can pre-order the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT One-Kit Wonders from Amazon now (note: the title text at amazon may not match the image, Amazon hasn’t fully updated their database yet).  You can also view a large image of the cover if you want.

FYI – The NXT Step has a post about the new book too.  I’ll try to update this post with any links to the new book I find:

• The NXT Step – LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT One-Kit Wonders
• The NXT Step – Preview of One Kit Wonders
• The NXT Step – Forum for One-Kit Wonders
• YouTube clip from Laurens Valk (author)
• NoStarch (publisher) – NXT One-Kit Wonders page
• The NXT Step – One-Kit Wonders – Chapter Overview