Robotics Resources

Arduino Books

GameMaker Books

Mindstorms NXT Books

NXT Misc Books

RobotC FTC Books

Mechanisms-Go Robotics

Robotics in the Classroom-Wright-Patterson AFB

ARDUINO BOOKS

30 Arduino Projects For The Evil Genius

By Simon Monk

- Shows how to program and build your own Arduino projects.
- Filled with step-by-step instructions, illustrations, photos and diagrams.
- Covers Windows, Mac and Linux.

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Arduino Programming Notebook

By Brian W. Evans

This notebook serves as a convenient, easy to use programming reference for the command structure and basic syntax of the Arduino microcontroller.

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Arduino: A Quick-Start Guide

By Maik Schmidt

This book is a quick-start guide that gets you up to speed quickly and enables you to immediately create your own projects. Every chapter has a troubleshooting section to help when things go wrong.

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Arduino Cookbook

By Michael Margolis

This book is aimed at a broad range of readers interested in using computer technology to interact with the environment. It is for people who want to quickly find the solution to hardware and software problems.

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Beginning Arduino

By Michael McRoberts

- 50 arduino projects with step-by-step instructions

- learn how to work with motors, sensors, displays, and networking

- create simple but practical projects such as arangefinder, an rfid reader, and an internet weather display

- no programming or electronics experience needed

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Getting Started with Arduino

By Massimo Banzi

This book serves with information providing thorough introduction to Arduino gives you lots of ideas for projects and helps you get going on them right away.

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Learning Processing A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction

By Daniel Shiffman

This book is for the beginner. If you have never written a line of code in your life, you are in the right place. No assumptions are made, and the fundamentals of programming are covered slowly, one by one, in the first nine chapters of this book.

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Getting Started with Processing

By Casey Reas and Ben Fry

Learn Computer Programming the easy way with processing, a simple language that lets you use code to create drawings, animation, and interactive graphics. This book lets you jump right into creative and fun projects.

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Practical Arduino, Cool Projects for Open Source Hardware

By Jonathan Oxer, Hugh Blemings

Learn in-depth Arduino techniques using real-world projects.

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GAMEMAKER BOOKS

The Game Maker's Apprentice

By Jacob Habgood, Mark Overmars

Create PC games the easy way using Game Maker's simple drag-and-drop interface Learn essential game design theory Make your games more fun!

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The Game Maker's Companion - Game Development: The Journey Continues

By Jacob Habgood, Nana Nielsen, Martin Rijks, Kevin Crossley

Discover the secrets of classic platform games create engaging storylines with believable characters program professional platform games using drag-and-drop and GML.

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MINDSTORMS NXT BOOKS

Advanced NXT- The Da Vinci Inventions Book

By Matthias Paul Scholz

This book is about building quite complex LEGO NXT robots with a lot of different parts. You will learn techniques to master certain challenges in building real-world gadgets with LEGO and how to make best or at least good use of special parts that are contained in the NXT kit or in other ones. You also should get a feeling for how to transform contraptions from the "real" world into LEGO devices and how to use the motors and various sensors the NXT kit provides.

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LEGO Mindstorms NXT - The Mayan Adventure

By James Floyd Kelly

This book answer the questions "How do I start designing a robot?","What should I build?"and explanation and information of "Put this piece here" and "Drop that there."

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LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming Guide (Second Edition)

By James Floyd Kelly

Master the NXT-G language for programming LEGO MINDSTORMS robots.

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Winning Design! - LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Design Patterns for Fun and Competition

By James J. Trobaugh

Concepts and techniques that will help you in areas that you are struggling with when working with your LEGO robot. Part of the fun of building and competing with LEGO robots is the discovery, but at the same time, nothing is more frustrating than getting yourself stuck in a corner where you feel you can't move forward. This book guides you past those moments and put you back on track to having fun and learning what it takes to build a successful, winning robot.

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