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1.		The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology from Viking Adult Price: $12.50 Customer Review: The projections the author makes about the future are plausible but the time line is not. Undoubtedly there will be many unforseen difficulties in developing such complex technology. I've seen old films from the 1950s that predicted flying cars for the turn of the century. As you know there... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Getting Started with Arduino (Make: Projects) from Make Price: $7.44 Customer Review: As a complete n00b to physical computing, Massimo Banzi's Getting Started with Arduino was the perfect introduction to this exciting field. I read the book while I waited for my Arduino to arrive and it allowed me to hit the ground running when it did. Why you want this book: You want to... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		MAKE: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery from Make Price: $20.08 Customer Review: A bald-faced look at building electronics, this book strikes one with a jolt of interest from page one. After tasting (as in with the tongue) the 9 volt--or less--batteries, to determine if they are yet functioning, kids and adults alike move on to simple electronic starter experiments, which are... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $9.82 Customer Review: He's a stylish and amusing writer with nothing to say. The book is a collection of anecdotes and opinions about the direction of robotics and war. Even a person with moderate literacy who regular reads the news would already know 98% of what he puts in the book. Worse, his book is full of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Robot Building for Beginners (Technology in Action) from Apress Price: $21.75 Customer Review: I looked around quite a bit trying to find a robot building book that would take my 14 yr old through the process in a way he could understand. David Cook delivered perfectly. Every other book I looked at seemed either too childish, or alternately, assumed a solid background in electronics. Robot... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Build Your Own CNC Machine (Technology in Action) from Apress Price: $24.95 Customer Review: The previous reviews are accurate, so I will add in my two cents. First, you need this book if you're going to get into CNC. I just finished reading through "Build Your Own CNC Machine" and I was very impressed with how much information was covered. It took really about 3 - 30 minute sessions to get... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide from No Starch Press Price: $18.77 Customer Review: Very good book, helps getting started with Mindstorms. Easy to use for my 11 year old.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever from Plume Price: $2.38 Customer Review: I have only read a quarter of the book, but need read no more to review it! However I have indeed looked at a few parts later in the book that interested me, one of which is the small matter of alcohol. (A little is good for you; you will live longer; too much is bad - most of us know that.)more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Creating Cool MINDSTORMS NXT Robots (Technology in Action) from Apress Price: $9.84 Customer Review: I am a beginner with Mindstorms NXT so I usually stay away from "advanced" books. But when I've seen this book in a local bookstore I decided I had to get it - the way theory aspects are presented and explained, the building instructions, the code, everything seemed really accessible. And now... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Robot Builder's Bonanza, Third Edition from McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Price: $16.63 Customer Review: This was a very good read but it requires knowledge in electronics. I know some basic electronics but some concepts were a little over my head. But I still enjoyed reading it.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library from O'Reilly Media Price: $37.88 Customer Review: The OpenCV library provides an amazing opportunity to those interested in computer vision to begin exploring the field. The only problem with OpenCV is that it is considerably lacking in straightforward, easy-to-use documentation. Luckily, that's where this book comes in. The... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications, Second Edition from Springer Price: $29.99 Customer Review: This book covers the concepts and algorithms concisely and hence forms a very handy reference to Computational Geometry. You could use this as the starting point for any Comp Geom application and build on that. I am pretty happy with this buy!	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0: The King's Treasure (Technology in Action) from Apress Price: $18.71 Customer Review: We purchased this book for my 15 and 9 year old boys who received a Mindstorms NXT 2.0 robot for Christmas. This book is intended for further instruction AFTER the tutorials that came with Mindstorms are completed. It is a great way to keep your robot builders interested and challenged. The... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: The Mayan Adventure (Technology in Action) from Apress Price: $2.92 Customer Review: At 43 years old I too was wondering if this was just for kids, but it definitely is not. It opens your mind to move beyond the following the step by step instructions in most all the other books out there. One must remember the kit was called Mindstorms for a reason, so you can develop your own... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		JunkBots, Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels: Building Simple Robots With BEAM Technology from McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Price: $10.97 Customer Review: i say this is the beginners guide for the robotics world and is very easy to understand i study hi def electronics and the schematics is very easy to understand and no need to understand the schematics because the author take pictures of all of the proses step by step and that make this book great... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming Guide (Technology in Action) from Apress Price: $6.00 Customer Review: I was VERY disappointed in this book. I have three examples, all of which arise from questions from an FLL team. This book answers none of them: 1. What does the "control motor power" toggle do in the Motor block? -- You will never know, because inexplicably, this most basic block is never... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine from The MIT Press Price: $17.42 Customer Review: Norbert Wiener was interested in the means by which feedback could be communicated to help correct the problems that develop in an organism. In investigating this matter, Weiner investigates a number of topics that differentiate between mere computation and intelligence and the importance that... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		The CNC Cookbook: An Introduction to the Creation and Operation of Computer Controlled Mills, Router Tables, Lathes, and More from Scited Publications Price: $28.08 Customer Review: This is an excellent introduction to CNC and DIY CNC projects. The text is well written, the explanations are clear, and the quality of the information is outstanding. If you want an introduction to CNC with an emphasis on building your own machines, this is a great first step.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT One-Kit Wonders: Ten Inventions to Spark Your Imagination from No Starch Press Price: $11.65 Customer Review: I bought this book for my seven year old son. He finds it difficult to understand the images. I have to constantly help him to build the models. I think if the images were colored he might have had a better chance of understanding. I very well understand that would have increased the price of the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius from McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Price: $9.97 Customer Review: I bought this book for my fiance, who is a senior in electrical engineering. He liked the different projects, but it requires one to have things that aren't around the house. So, we are constantly running to Radio Shack or ordering things off-line.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		Schaum's Outline of Feedback and Control Systems (Schaum's) from McGraw-Hill Price: $7.74 Customer Review: I purchased this and two other Schaum's outlines during this purchase. The product arrived as described. I purchased this as a supplement for the text Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, by Gene Franklin and it has some good information in it, but it does not flow well with textbook I have. The... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book: A Beginner's Guide to Building and Programming Robots from No Starch Press Price: $19.77	Click here for more information


23.		Control Systems Engineering, 5th Edition from Wiley Price: $115.98 Customer Review: This book was sent on time, and was new. The book was the international paperback version through. The numbers for the homework is different.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Robot Programming : A Practical Guide to Behavior-Based Robotics from McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Price: $16.62 Customer Review: Most of the robot books I've purchased rarely explained the detail of how you could create some kind of "intelligent" program and expand it as you need. This book give you an example using pseudo code so basically you could implement it in any programming language usually found in embedded... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making More Magic Real from Disney Editions Price: $37.80	Click here for more information


26.		Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships from Harper Perennial Price: $8.50 Customer Review: Given the reported emotional attachments that some soldiers have with the machines that sometimes save their lives, or AIBO owners to their robot dogs, it is easy to accept a book that discusses the possibility of actual love affairs or even sex with humanoid-like machines. From a purely sexual... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Thinking Robots: Build a Rubik's Cube Solver and a Tic-Tac-Toe Playing Robot! from No Starch Press Price: $17.27 Customer Review: This is the second book from Daniele, its quite detail guide and easy to follow. If you are a Mindstormer and you need to learn how to build "Solver" robot, then this is the only book you need. It works on both retail version of Lego Mindstorm and you don't need to purchase additional... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build from No Starch Press Price: $17.50 Customer Review: Looking for a birthday gift (15th birthday) for my son that would spark some interest to do something besides playing video games led me to this Lego product and I must say the venture was successful. He has truly enjoyed using his "mind" and "hands" to build his robots and looks forward to coming... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		Build Your Own Humanoid Robots : 6 Amazing and Affordable Projects (TAB Robotics) from McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Price: $13.83 Customer Review: The way this book is put togther is what leaves me feeling a bit ripped off. I feel the author and/or publisher owe me some money! At least one third of the book was copied over from manufacturer's free publications. If you want to read a list of available programming instructions contained within... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		Bike, Scooter, and Chopper Projects for the Evil Genius from McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Price: $12.99 Customer Review: I don't know why genius has to be evil. And there ain't much genius in the projects described. However, this was just what we were looking for- a practical guide to create very interesting projects. I bought the book for my oldest son (he's 14), yet I had just as much fun deciding which of the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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