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| Jonathan Knudsen is writing an O'Reilly book, details at (URL) . Asides from that, check the mindstorms website frequently... # -----Original Message----- # From: jeff@learningstar.com # Sent: 02 April 1999 19:19 # To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com # (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 6.160)
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| The URL of my book has changed. The new URL is: (URL) has a page for it, but they haven't caught up with the cover image or the description yet: (URL) you check the web site first?: (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 6.096)
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| The MIT Press bookstore will have a booth at MindFest; they will be selling my book. The release date for the book is October 15, in plenty of time for Christmas. Finally, the title will probably change, to avoid legal trouble with you-know-who. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 6.085)
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| | Re: O'Reilly book news
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| (...) The whole thing is kind of silly. LEGO felt that we shouldn't be allowed to publish a book without paying them a license fee. We didn't think we needed to pay a license fee to write about their product; after all, we don't do that for anyone (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 6.080)
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| | Re: O'Reilly book news
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| (...) We considered this--Unauthorized, or Unofficial. It conveyed the meaning pretty well, but at the same time we felt that "Unauthorized" had a connotation that the information might not be particularly accurate, which it is. It's really out of (...) (25 years ago, 4-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 6.076)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 6.067)
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| | Re: O'Reilly book news
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| Jonathan Knudsen: (...) How about a "name the book" contest? - Learning NQC, pbFORTH, and legOS - Mastering Plastic Binding Brick Robots with Lots of Neat Moving Parts - RCX Programming in a Nutshell - RCX Hacking: The Definitive Guide - Essential (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 6.038)
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| | Comparative Book Review
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| The Mindstorms Books A Comparative Review by Jack Gregory The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots, Jonathan B. Knudsen, O'Reilly, 247pp., $24.95 Dave Baum's Definitive Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS, Dave Baum, Apress, 385pp +CD-ROM, $24.95 (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 6.010)
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| | Re: Is there a NQC HowTo out there someplace?
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| I was in the same situation as you when I started out with NQC and I found the following resources helpful... Programming Lego Robots using NQC by Mark Overmars is a good tutorial...I probably used it the most to learn the basics of NQC... (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 6.003)
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| | Re: O'Reilly Mindstorms book [was RE: Memory]
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| (...) Ha ha! Me neither, and I work for them. (...) That was exactly my feeling. I sent some mail to Tim O'Reilly a long time ago when I started reading articles about Mindstorms. I thought it would be cool to do a book, and that the people that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
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| Hello, Several people have expressed interest in seeing a CDROM packaged with the Mindstorms book. Such a CDROM would contain things like NQC, legOS, RcxCC, and links to Mindstorms Web pages. My gut feeling is that there's no point: the software (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 5.102)
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| | Re: O'Reilly Mindstorms book [was RE: Memory]
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| (...) My general feeling is that most of the software is evolving so fast that anything we put on a CD would be out of date by the time the book was printed. I am planning to make the book chock full of URLs, however. Some of these are bound to (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
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| (...) We don't have a schedule yet; I'm only about two chapters into it so far. Please don't ask our customer service people about it--they will get annoyed with me. The book is designed to tell you how to max out your RIS kit--basically it picks up (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 5.101)
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| | RE: O'Reilly Mindstorms book [was RE: Memory]
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| (...) Yup, I shelled out the bucks for two sets--I definitely want to write about at least one dual-RCX project. (...) I'm no lawyer, but my basic attitude is that anything on the list is public domain. I've gotten a lot of topic ideas from this (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 5.099)
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| | Book with CD: conclusions
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| Thanks to everyone who responded. I got basically three responses: 1. CDs are unnecessary fluff. They make the book stiff and don't add value. 2. CDs are absolutely necessary. Some people don't have easy Internet access, and out-of-date software is (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 5.087)
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| The example code from _The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots_ is available online: (URL) includes RCX Code files, NQC source files, pbFORTH source files, legOS C source files (0.1.7, not 0.2.0a), and even a MS Word document with VBA macros (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
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| | Re: Book on Robot Sensors and Navigation Techniques.
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| As long as we're on the subject of books, I'd like to recommend "Mobile Robots" by Anita Flynn and Joe Lee Jones: (URL) a fascinating book, full of hands-on information. It contains step by step instructions for building several robots, including (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 5.085)
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| | Re: Robotics Book
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| Hi Nick, We're shooting to release it in time for the Christmas 1999 season. This means I have to finish in August, which means I have to write a chapter every two weeks or so. So far it's going well. I can barely wait myself. Again, this is (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 5.075)
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| | Re: Subsumption Architecture
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| My book contains an introduction to subsumption architecture and examples in NQC and C. The NQC example is in Chapter 9 and the C example is in Chapter 10. The source code is available online: (URL) the link for "Examples". The relevant programs are (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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knudsen, oreilly, book
(score: 5.073)
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