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Table of Contents
Preface xi
1. Welcome to MINDSTORMS 1
What Is a Robot? 2
Mobile Robots 2
What Is MINDSTORMS? 6
What Now? 11
Online Resources 11
2. Hank, the Bumper Tank 14
About the Building Instructions 14
Building Instructions 16
A Simple Program 25
Wheels 27
Bumpers and Feelers 31
Gears 31
Multitasking 36
Online Resources 37
3. Trusty, a Line Follower 39
Building Instructions 40
Some Tricky Programming 44
The Light Sensor 48
Idler Wheels 50
Using Two Light Sensors 50
Online Resources 52
4. Not Quite C 53
A Quick Start 54
RCX Software Architecture 55
NQC Overview 58
Trusty Revisited 77
Online Resources 81
