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10 Cool LEGO Mindstorms Ultimate Builder Projects: Amazing Projects You Can Build in Under an Hour

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The following review was written by Ben, one of my 4th graders. He has used this book in class to build some of the robots:

Pros: cool robots, nice designs, easy to find most pieces

Cons: Takes a while to build them, sometimes they don't work

This book has very cool robots but I don't like the directions because it just shows you a picture of the how it is supposed to look, but doesn't give step by step instructions. My favorite robot is the Sumo Bug. This robot is basic and cool. This book includes 10 robots including the WideBot, Sumo Bug, hopper, HunterBot, Nessie, Nellie, Domino bot, Draw bridge, Candy Wrapper Compactor, and the Robo-Hominid.

All of the robots are fairly easy to build. You will find most of the pieces easy to find. However there are some pieces that might be hard to find. On the Widebot's base you will need a piece that is not included in the blue Lego Mindstorms 2.0 kits. There is also a piece on the grabber motor on the Hunter bot that does not come with the kits. Over all I give this book four stars.

lego manuals without Colors are like the ocean without water.
The book is nice but I am not going to buy another B & W lego book.

The best way is to learn from the past. Make these projects and you will have a firm basis for making your own variations and new projects.

Great mix of robots in this book--some "standard" variations on familiar prototypes (using UBS parts) and some pretty out there ones as well that I would have never thought of. Excellent book. I've seen the RIS one that came before this but didn't buy it--I'm going to go back and get it now.