What’s in This Book

Chapter 1, “What’s in the Box?”: This chapter goes through the parts and pieces in the EV3 Home Edition, including the included sensors, motors, and test track.

Chapter 2, “What’s in the LEGO Education Box?”: This chapter goes through the parts and pieces in the LEGO Education set. Even if you don’t have this set, you can separately purchase a lot of the parts, so it’s a good overview and might give you expansion ideas.

Chapter 3, “Comparing the EV3 and NXT”: If you’ve played with the previous version of LEGO MINDSTORMS, you’ll want to check out the differences and improvements in the EV3.

Chapter 4, “Building Your First Bots”: This chapter goes over the demo robots available from LEGO and offers a little more insight into ...

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