商品描述
LEGO Mindstorms and SPIKE Prime are great products with vast capabilities, but are often so complex that many people don't know how to use them. LEGO provides a walk-through of a few projects to build, which are cool, but after building these many people get stuck on "now what?" This book answers that question by showing the underlying principles required to build their own ideas.
This book is a hands-on tour of how machines work with LEGO--there's nothing like building a machine with your own two hands to understand how it works. It includes aspects of software engineering, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering. As parts and associated engineering concepts are presented, they will be shown in their practical use with graphical step-by-step assembly instructions.
The concepts conveyed are mostly learned through building examples, with text explanation to reinforce the ideas being learned. Every engineering concept has a building example to go with it, in a quick build of less than 15 assembly steps. At the end of each chapter there's a project to tie the concepts of the chapter together of a little more complexity, involving 15 to 30 steps. These assembly steps are drawn with a computer aided design program that looks like the diagrams that LEGO produces for its products, so readers will be familiar with the look of the assembly directions.
What You'll Learn
- Layout a Word Blocks or Python computer program from scratch
- See how LEGO building elements are meant to be assembled
- Manipulate the power source of a rotating shaft from an electric motor
- Use gears to alter the speed and torque of a power train
- Change the motion from a rotating shaft to a desired action Basic mechanisms (turntable, differential, cam, ratchet, etc.) to
- Use sensors (motion, distance, light, color) to make interactive inventions
- Integrate mechanical, software, and electrical subsystems in a project
Who This Book Is For
The knowledge presumed in this book is basic familiarity in building with LEGO, having past experience with building a set of moderate complexity of more than a 100 pieces. Basic familiarity with operating a personal computer is also assumed, such as to install an app.
Likely interested readers are: LEGO fans looking for ways to build new and better inventions, middle-school and high-school age students who have an interest in science, math, and engineering, adults who like to learn how things work and tinker with inventions, and educators who use the SPIKE Prime set and are looking for new ideas for lesson plans.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
LEGO Mindstorms 和 SPIKE Prime 是功能強大的優秀產品，但往往過於複雜，以至於許多人不知道如何使用它們。LEGO 提供了一些項目的逐步指導，這些項目很酷，但在完成這些項目後，許多人會卡在「接下來該怎麼辦？」這個問題上。本書通過展示構建自己想法所需的基本原則來回答這個問題。
本書是關於如何使用 LEGO 構建機器的實作導覽——沒有什麼比親手構建一台機器更能理解其運作原理。它涵蓋了軟體工程、機械工程和電氣工程的各個方面。當介紹零件及相關的工程概念時，將以實際應用的方式呈現，並附上圖形化的逐步組裝說明。
所傳達的概念主要是通過構建範例來學習，並以文字解釋來加強所學的理念。每個工程概念都有一個相應的構建範例，組裝步驟少於 15 步驟，快速完成。在每章的結尾都有一個項目，將該章的概念結合起來，這個項目稍微複雜一些，涉及 15 到 30 步驟。這些組裝步驟是使用電腦輔助設計程式繪製的，外觀類似 LEGO 為其產品製作的圖示，因此讀者會對組裝說明的外觀感到熟悉。
**你將學到什麼**
- 從零開始佈局一個 Word Blocks 或 Python 電腦程式
- 了解 LEGO 建構元件的組裝方式
- 操控電動馬達的旋轉軸的電源
- 使用齒輪改變動力傳動系統的速度和扭矩
- 將旋轉軸的運動轉換為所需的動作，基本機構（轉盤、差速器、凸輪、棘輪等）
- 使用感測器（運動、距離、光線、顏色）來製作互動式發明
- 在一個項目中整合機械、軟體和電氣子系統
**本書適合誰**
本書假設讀者對 LEGO 的建構有基本的熟悉度，並且有過構建超過 100 件的中等複雜度套件的經驗。也假設讀者對操作個人電腦有基本的熟悉度，例如安裝應用程式。
可能感興趣的讀者包括：尋找新方法來構建新穎和更好發明的 LEGO 愛好者、對科學、數學和工程感興趣的中學生和高中生、喜歡了解事物運作原理並進行發明的成年人，以及使用 SPIKE Prime 套件並尋找新教學計畫點子的教育工作者。
作者簡介
Grady Koch is the author of several books about LEGO and the founder of the website hightechlego.com. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and 35 years of experience as a research engineer at NASA Langley Research Center, where he has built optical and laser instruments that have been flown on aircraft and orbited the Earth. He has three patents in the field of lidar for studying the atmosphere and is the author or contributor of over 200 journal and conference publications. Throughout his career, Dr. Koch has mentored many interns and found that students sometimes need a little help in making the transition of what they've learned in classroom to real-world practice. These ideas of applying knowledge to practice are incorporated into his LEGO books.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
格雷迪·科赫是幾本有關 LEGO 的書籍作者，也是網站 hightechlego.com 的創辦人。他擁有電機工程博士學位，並在 NASA 蘭利研究中心擔任研究工程師已有 35 年的經驗，期間他建造了多種光學和激光儀器，這些儀器曾在飛機上飛行並繞地球運行。他在研究大氣的激光雷達（lidar）領域擁有三項專利，並且是超過 200 篇期刊和會議出版物的作者或貢獻者。在他的職業生涯中，科赫博士指導了許多實習生，並發現學生有時在將課堂上學到的知識轉化為實際應用時需要一些幫助。這些將知識應用於實踐的理念被融入到他的 LEGO 書籍中。
