Books About LEGOs
A number of interesting and informative books have been written about LEGOs.
Descriptions of them are shown below.
Links are provided to Amazon.com where you can find out more about these books, and if you like, purchase them at discount prices.
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The Cult of LEGO
by Joe Meno - 2011
LEGO is much more than just a toy—it's a way of life. The Cult of LEGO takes you on a thrilling illustrated tour of the LEGO community and its creations. You'll meet LEGO fans from all walks of life, like professional artist Nathan Sawaya, brick filmmaker David Pagano, the enigmatic Ego Leonard, and the many devoted AFOLs (adult fans of LEGO) who spend countless hours building their masterpieces.
In this full-color coffee table book, you'll find page after page of photos showcasing the fantastically creative and complex models built by the LEGO community. You'll marvel at a life-size stegosaurus, a microscale Yankee Stadium, a 22-foot long World War II battleship, a MINDSTORMS-powered monster chess set, and a remote- controlled Jawa Sandcrawler (with moving conveyor belt!). Visit the conventions where LEGO fans gather to socialize and show off their work. And discover the serious side of LEGO, used in therapy, prototyping, and teambuilding.
The LEGO Ideas Book
by Daniel Lipkowitz - 2011
Daniel Lipkowitz is a LEGO(R) Group Senior Writer and story developer. He writes for LEGO Master Builder Academy and LEGO Club Magazine, creates characters and storylines for new LEGO themes, and writes scripts for animated LEGO movies and videos.
The LEGO Technic Idea Book:
Simple Machines
by Yoshihito Isogawa - 2010
The LEGO® Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines is a collection of hundreds of working examples of simple yet fascinating Technic models that you can build based on their pictures alone. Each project uses color-coded pieces and is photographed from multiple angles, making it easy to see how the models are assembled without the need for step-by-step instructions. Every model illustrates a different principle, concept, or mechanism that will inspire your own original creations. You're encouraged to use these elements as building blocks to create your own masterpieces.
The Technic models in Simple Machines demonstrate basic configurations of gears, shafts, pulleys, turntables, connectors, and the like. You'll learn how to create small, elegant machines like cranes, operable doors, motorized cars, a rubber band-powered rocket launcher, a hand-cranked drag racer, and even musical instruments.
The LEGO Technic Idea Book:
Fantastic Contraptions
by Yoshihito Isogawa - 2010
The LEGO® Technic Idea Book: Fantastic Contraptions is a collection of hundreds of working examples of simple yet fascinating Technic models that you can build based on their pictures alone. Each project uses color-coded pieces and is photographed from multiple angles, making it easy to see how the models are assembled without the need for step-by-step instructions. Every model illustrates a different principle, concept, or mechanism that will inspire your own original creations. You're encouraged to use these elements as building blocks to create your own masterpieces.
The Technic models in Fantastic Contraptions include working catapults, crawling spiders, and bipedal walkers, as well as gadgets powered by fans, propellers, springs, magnets, and vibration. You'll even learn how to add lights, pneumatics, and solar panels to your own models.
The Unofficial LEGO Builders Guide
by Allan Bedford, 2005
Allan Bedford is a lifelong LEGO fan and builder whose most ambitious model to date is a 5,000 piece replica of Toronto's famed CN Tower. He is active in the online LEGO community, having contributed ideas and discussions for several years. Bedford works as a computer programmer analyst by day and spends his spare time cycling, designing board games and, of course, building with LEGO bricks.
The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book: A Beginner's Guide to Building and Progamming Robots
by Laurens Valk - 2010
Discover the many features of the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 set. The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book is the complete, illustrated, beginner's guide to MINDSTORMS that you've been looking for.
The crystal clear instructions in the Discovery Book will show you how to harness the capabilities of the NXT 2.0 set to build and program your own robots. Author and robotics instructor Laurens Valk walks you through the set, showing you how to use its various pieces, and how to use the NXT software to program robots. Interactive tutorials make it easy for you to reach an advanced level of programming as you learn to build robots that move, monitor sensors, and use advanced programming techniques like data wires and variables. You'll build eight increasingly sophisticated robots like the Strider (a six-legged walking creature), the CCC (a climbing vehicle), the Hybrid Brick Sorter (a robot that sorts by color and size), and the Snatcher (an autonomous robotic arm). Numerous building and programming challenges throughout encourage you to think creatively and to apply what you've learned as you develop the skills essential to creating your own robots.
LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary Library Edition
In true DK style, LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary elucidates, illuminates,
and excites even the most discerning LEGO Group, Star Wars, and minifigure fans around the world.
Darth Vader, Boba Fett, Yoda, Luke Skywalker, and more are brought to life with dozens of little-known
facts and hundreds of photos of accessories, vehicles, weapons, and even the Death Star! Learn about
the history, manufacturing, and construction of the minifigures of the Star Wars galaxy, and come away
a LEGO Jedi Master.
LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia
Get to know "the LEGO Star Wars" minifigures in this fact-filled character encyclopedia. "LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia" is one of the few, and highly sort after, "LEGO Star Wars" books on the market. This book features more than 300 minifigures and over 400 captivating images including many unseen elements. Organised in order of their appearance in the movies, each "LEGO Star Wars" minifigure has a full-page character profile with lots of fascinating facts. It includes from Anakin Skywalker and Han Solo in their many guises to the wampa and the mouse droid. Plus, there's even more. It features an exclusive Han Solo minifigure, receiving a medal in the same scene from a "New Hope" as our Luke Skywalker minifigure, not available anywhere else. Grab one before it's gone.
