This book delivers what’s on the cover: it’s a beginners guide to robotics, for those who selected LEGO Boost as their robotics kit. The LEGO boost app is great for young kids (our son is 6 and picked up programming with the app in no time), however it doesn’t explain robotics, it just introduces programming and robotics by examples. This book first provides a manual to LEGO boost that LEGO didn’t include in the box, it teaches how to construct robots with LEGO, it explains programming functions, it teaches simple physics needed to build robotics (such as turn angles, gearing, leverage, etc) and provides some building instructions. It is not intended as a collection of building instructions, but it includes 3 interesting builds that complement the ones included in the LEGO app.
The LEGO boost set targets children aged 7-12 (according to LEGO). This book is clearly targeting a different group. I would suggest this book is best intended for secondary school children or older. Which could include those that build robotics themselves, parents of children that would like to assist in building robots, novice teachers in robotics, or similar.
- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: No Starch Press,US (27 November 2018)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1593279329
- ISBN-13: 978-1593279325
- Product Dimensions:: 20.5 x 1.4 x 25.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 794 g
- Customer reviews: 1 customer rating
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