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Jin Sato's LEGO MINDSTORMS: The Master's Technique |
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From Library Journal
Expect demand for titles on Mindstorms, the popular system for building computer-controlled robots using LEGO bricks. Sato outlines basic building techniques for parts included in LEGO's Robotics Invention System kit, moves on to programming techniques and third-party software, then provides step-by-step instructions on robot creation and programming (including MIBO, his LEGO Hall of Fame robotic dog). More advanced topics such as MLCad and creating assembly dia... >> |
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Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World |
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From Publishers Weekly
When Mulhall sees the future, he pictures every home having a virtually cost-free desktop fabricator, not unlike an ink jet printer, that is able to create any three-dimensional object desired; he envisions being able to change the color of a car, or clothes, simply by speaking. Mulhall, who heads an environmental software consultancy, believes that nanotechnology, the ability to rearrange individual atoms, will lead to technological advances that will change ... >> |
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Artificial Life II: Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Life Held February, 1990 in Santa Fe, New Mexico (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings) |
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From Book News, Inc.
The proceedings of the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on the synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 1990, comprise 30 papers covering current research which employs computers and other media in attempts to simulate and even synthesize such complex biological phenomena as the origin and evolution of life, multi-cellular growth and development, adaptive behavior, ecological and population dynamics, and the behavior of... >> |
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