ROBOTMAK3RS Blog

Recently the first MINDSTORMS books hit the shelfs, some are written for the Educations ( 45544 ) set and some are for the Retail ( 31313 ) set. It is important to pick the right book, or else you end up with a good book about the EV3, but you cannot recreate any of the models inside. A book by Daniele Benedettelli the creator of guitar bonus model. He is an expert on MINDSTORMS and as MCP he was closely involved in the development process of the EV3. The book starts with explaining the 31313 set details and how to build some good structures. Then with the help of a comic you are guided into the new features of the set, like the IR control, and on-brick programing. in the end you build some amazing robots, and the code how to run your models is nicely explained in the book. It is in Black white, and sometimes this is a bit harder to follow the building instructions, but let not lead you there, this is the BEST EV3 31313 book out now! Here or here is a link if you want one! Bu...