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About the Author

Gary Garber

Gary Garber teaches physics, math, and engineering at Boston University Academy. Gary is the Past-President of the New England Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, and has led dozens of professional development workshops in education, on both the local and national level. Gary runs the Boston University FIRST Robotics program. He has run and hosted numerous robotics workshops in VEX, Tetrix, and LEGO platforms. He has also run several LEGO robotics tournaments and spoken on robotics education at both local and national conferences. His robotics team has worked with Engineers Without Borders, NASA, and the National Science Teachers Association on a variety of engineering and education projects. He is currently an educational consultant, working to develop new software tools for the classroom, at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, which is a pioneer in LEGO Robotics Education. He currently resides in Massachusetts, US and when he is not playing with LEGOS, robots, or toy trains, he enjoys spending time with his wife Catalina, and their two children, Alejandro and Leonardo.

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  • File Size: 13199 KB
  • Print Length: 82 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (November 5, 2013)
  • Publication Date: November 5, 2013
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  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849519757
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849519755
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1.0 out of 5 starsComplete waste of money and major disappointment
By David Weissman on October 12, 2013
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I was so excited to finally buy a book about my newly purchased Mindstorms EV3 kit, and finally get some understanding about how to program it, only to find out that I didn't have the right LEGO KIT!!!

Yes, this is a warning to all readers out there: If you bought the retail home version of the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Kit (i.e., the one sold here on Amazon and basically every LEGO store, toy store, department store and every other website on the internet), then this book is NOT FOR YOU. In order to build and program the robots in this particularly useless book, you must be have the Education version of the Mindstorms EV3 Kit, which is only sold to schools and educators. Now, why this guy would not (a) explain this on the cover and all information available about his book, and (b) consider building robots in the book which could be built using EITHER version of the EV3 kit, I have no idea. I think he is either oblivious to the fact that there is a retail version out there and it is the only version available to the general public, or he simply doesn't care about any of his potential readers who are not students or educators at this particular time.

Bottom line: Wait for another author to write a book in the future, or buy the education version of the EV3 kit FIRST. Otherwise, prepare for some major frustration.
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5.0 out of 5 starsVery good step by step introduction of EV3 Education set programming
By +++ on November 12, 2013
Format: Paperback
First of all, as many of us know, and as it already was pointed out by other reviewers, Lego offers two versions of EV3: "Retail" and "Education" sets. Both are accessible to general public, but through different distribution channels. I have opted to order the Education version for my son because it comes with MUCH more professionally looking software, the robots in Education version look like robots and not like scary monsters, and there is an option of extension set which enables on to build even more sophisticated robots. Retail and Education sets contain the same core EV3 brick but different plastic bricks, so robots are not quite interchangeable. The books also work only with either one or other set. This specific book requires the Education set (45544), sold only directly through Lego Education web site. The owners of the Education version should be happy that this book came out. My son and I found that this book offers a lot of good information on increasingly different programming concepts. It contains a healthy mix of instructions how to build an educational robot (a little more ugly than the standard one, but this is OK for the purpose of training) and guidance and examples how to program it to achieve different tasks. Since there are so many versions of programs in the book, I found that this stimulated my son's desire to experiment and to create his own versions of the program to make robot do different things. He made a lot of progress while working with this book.

If you wonder why this book can't be used with Retail kit: the key difference is that it utilizes ultrasonic and gyro sensors which are available for purchase separately but not included in the Retail kit.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsToo Instant
By Luv2Teach on October 6, 2013
Format: Kindle Edition
This book covers some intermediate/advanced features which is exactly what I was looking for. The problem was that it was not detailed enough. The images were difficult to understand where the wirings and set up were concerned. Blocks were all over the place making it difficult to follow (ie. gyro sensor example). I know that EV3 is a little different in terms of structure when compared to NXT but if you are stemming away from the familiar, it would help if the graphics were larger and clearer so that it is easier to see what is connected to what OR provide the support code.
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4.0 out of 5 starsAuthor makes example code available for download. Nice timesaver!
By James P. Heine on September 12, 2014
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I downloaded this book to help me get my First Lego League team up to speed on the new EV3 for this season. As some other reviewers note, this book is for use with the EDUCATION kit of the EV3, not the retail kit. I was trying to follow the programming examples and, like other reviewers have noted, got frustrated with the difficulty viewing the images of the programming. Even on my iPad Kindle app, I could not get a good picture. Frustrating. The book introduction indicates that you can download the code from the publisher website. It took me a bit to figure out (go to publisher site, register, search the book title, go to the webpage for the title, underneath the image of the cover there is a link "code files". Download that zip file!!! All the programs discussed in each chapter are there. Huge timesaver for me as a coach trying to go through and debug and check for me and then the kids when we are just getting started with the new EV3. With a group of elementary students, something I can use to demonstrate that works is better than hours of coding and debugging. Saves lots of frustration and disappointment. Thanks for having the code available. Saves me a full day of coding/debugging, because I always have coding errors that drive me crazy!
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2.0 out of 5 starsMADE FOR SET# 45544 NOT #31313
By Marc Andre Bazergui on October 9, 2013
Format: Kindle Edition
Not sure I can trust a book that starts off with naming the product wrong. :( It's LEGO MINDSTORMS not Mindstorm
((edit: They corrected the cover page title since then))

Also be aware that this book if for those who have the EV3 Education set!! (teachers and students, mainly the set found in schools)
If you get/have the 31313 Retail Set (the blue box on sale here on Amazon) you will NOT be able to build the robots in this book as you will be missing the fat tires, gyro sensor, etc...
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 starsThree Stars

quite a learning curve

Published 10 months ago by bedford mundell
5.0 out of 5 starsbuy it

great help good book working on lego league projects

Published 16 months ago by Tim Short
1.0 out of 5 starsI am sure that the author is very qualified and that this is a good...

This book has three qualities that deserve a one star rating: 1) It is less than half the pages of the other EV3 books that I have bought at about the same price. Read more

Published 17 months ago by Kenneth M. Jones
2.0 out of 5 starsThe book was well written, however, it is ...

The book was well written, however, it is meant for the "Education Lego EV3" version not the EV3 Mindstorms version that you can purchase at a store. Read more

Published on December 12, 2014 by MilitaryDad
5.0 out of 5 starsSophisticated Mindstorms programming, carefully explained.

This book is remarkably thin, but does its job very well. It gives a whirlwind introduction to the hardware and software that make up the EV3 product, while showing the reader how... Read more

Published on November 2, 2014 by T. O'Brien
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Item was delivered on time and is as expected. Definitely helped my son prepare for upcoming FLL season.

Published on August 31, 2014 by Michael Vogt
4.0 out of 5 starsThere could be better graphics or more comments of the programs for...

This is a short book, about 70 pages. I bought the e book directly from the publisher. The e book is in color and has four sections, increasing in difficulty. Read more

Published on August 26, 2014 by Bill Tang
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

amazing book, fast ship.

Published on July 4, 2014 by LUIZ HENRIQUE ZEFERINO
5.0 out of 5 starsmy husband found this book invaluable

My husband read this book as an introduction to the EV3 ( previously we used the NXT ) and found it very useful as a starting point

Published on February 15, 2014 by yong junina
1.0 out of 5 starsNeeds better description

I could not tell from the description that this book was for the Educational EV3 kit, not the Retail kit. Read more

Published on February 14, 2014 by Our Family

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