Build Your Own Teams of Robots with LEGO® Mindstorms® NXT and Bluetooth®

Build and program teams of Mindstorms robots that communicate and cooperate with each other wirelessly via Bluetooth Robots are taking over the world! "Build Your Own Teams of Robots with LEGO Mindstorms NXT and Bluetooth" gives growing hordes of robot enthusiasts an unprecedented array of tools and techniques to build teams of robots that work together!

A top-flight team of author experts instruct you on how to use Lego Mindstorms NXT, a widely-embraced programmable robotics kit that's built around the NXT Intelligent Brick controller. Discover how to build and network different types of Mindstorm NXT robots, as well as how to program NXT using C and Java on a range of platforms. Learn how to build and program teams of "talking" NXT robots, add Android capabilities for communication with mobile devices, and operate and troubleshoot the network. Step-by-step instructions for building four types of smartphone-controllable, Bluetooth-networked NXT robots Extensive coverage of the use of tool chains for Java and C for Mac OS X and Linux Introduces Bluetooth programming in the Linux and Mac OS X environments and key concepts and implementation principles of the Bluetooth Robotics-Oriented Network (BRON)

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Cameron Hughes is a professional software developer with over fifteen years of experience. He is a staff programmer/analyst at Youngstown State University and a software epistemologist for Ctest Laboratories. Tracey Hughes is a senior software and graphics programmer at Ctest Laboratories where she develops information and epistemic visualization software. Both Cameron and Tracey Hughes are long time robot enthusiasts with a collection of over 100 robots. They have sponsored and participated in local robot competitions and robot programming workshops for the Lego NXT and RS Media platforms through their local ACM chapter. Cameron and Tracey are the authors of seven books on software development, multithreaded programming, and parallel programming in C++.

Bob Kramer has been a full-time Computer Science Professor at Youngstown State University. Bob's research interests include using Lego robotics as a tool to teach computer science concepts, as well as the development and extension of programming tools for Lego robots. He has helped extend the nxtOSEK environment to enable C++ programs to execute on the NXT platform, and has developed an interface for a third-party sensor in the LeJOS environment. Bob Kramer has used Lego robotics to teach basic programming concepts in summer enrichment programs for high school students. He has spoken at numerous workshops about robot design and pedagogical uses of robots.

Trevor Watkins is a network communications and system integrations specialist. He is currently the Technology Manager at the Wadsworth Public Library, where he designs, integrates, and administers all aspects of the library's network and information systems. Trevor is an adjunct professor in the Computer Science and Information Systems Department at Youngstown State University, where he teaches high level programing languages and computer networks. He has been a robot hobbyist for over 20 years with the past 5 years dedicated to NXT-Mindstorms, Vex and Arduino-based robot kits, and consults with local high school robotics teams.