Introduction

Welcome to the second edition of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming Guide. Since the release of the first edition in 2007, the LEGO MINDSTORMS robotics kit has exploded in popularity and continues to find its way into the hands of newcomers. The first NXT robotics kit was released in late 2006 to rave reviews, and NXT-G, the graphical software used to program robots, was a huge hit.

By following along with some built-in tutorials, users of the new robotics kit were given the basics of the software and set free to design and create some of the strangest, silliest, useful, and/or most unique robots you'd ever imagine. But programming with the NXT-G software wasn't easy for everyone to understand – some took to it immediately and others ...

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