Title: good book for building robots
Product review: This book is the best I have seen at introducing how to construct robots or other mechatronics projects. I like the survey of multiple alternative microcontrollers, from Basic Stamp II to OOPIC to Basicx.The only couple things I would have liked improved or added:Even though there are three chapters on Lego Mindstorms, sometimes it skimps on a description or example and just points you to the appendix of web links. No mention of lejos, the java VM for RCX.The book doesn't mention USB at all and mostly focuses on the parallel port. I know most all robotic projects still use the serial or parallel port, but nowadays computers are being made without them. Even Mindstorms is USB. Although this is a 2nd edition, some of the material still feels old like that. It still talks about laptops like they are something new.
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