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Books with author Yoshihito Isogawa

  • The LEGO BOOST Idea Book: 95 Simple Robots and Hints for Making More!

    Yoshihito Isogawa

    Paperback (No Starch Press, Sept. 25, 2018)
    The LEGO® BOOST® Idea Book contains dozens of ideas for building simple robots with the LEGO BOOST set.The LEGO® BOOST® Idea Book explores 95 creative ways to build simple robots with the LEGO BOOST set. Each model includes a parts list, minimal text, screenshots of programs, and colorful photographs from multiple angles so you can re-create it without step-by-step instructions.You'll learn to build robots that can walk and crawl, shoot and grab objects, and even draw using a pen! Each model demonstrates handy mechanical principles that you can use to come up with your own creations.Models come with building hints and ideas for putting your own spin on things. Best of all, every part you need to build these models comes in the LEGO BOOST Creative Toolbox (set #17101).
  • The LEGO Power Functions Idea Book, Volume 1: Machines and Mechanisms

    Yoshihito Isogawa

    Paperback (No Starch Press, Oct. 1, 2015)
    This first volume of The LEGO Power Functions Idea Book, Machines and Mechanisms, showcases small projects to build with LEGO Technic gears, motors, gadgets, and other moving elements. You’ll find hundreds of clever, buildable mechanisms, each one demonstrating a key building technique or mechanical principle.You’ll learn to build sliding doors, grasping claws, rack-and-pinion mechanisms, and ball-shooting devices of every sort!Each model includes a list of required parts and colorful photographs that guide you through the build without the need for step-by-step instructions. As you build, you’ll explore the principles of simple machines, gear systems, power translation, and more.
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  • The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Idea Book: 181 Simple Machines and Clever Contraptions

    Yoshihito Isogawa

    Paperback (No Starch Press, Nov. 7, 2014)
    The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 Idea Book explores dozens of creative ways to build amazing mechanisms with the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 set. Each model includes a list of the required parts, minimal text, and colorful photographs from multiple angles so you can re-create it without the need for step-by-step instructions.You’ll learn to build cars with real suspension, steerable crawlers, ball-shooters, grasping robotic arms, and other creative marvels. Each model demonstrates simple mechanical principles that you can use as building blocks for your own creations.Best of all, every part you need to build these machines comes in one LEGO set (#31313)!
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  • The LEGO Power Functions Idea Book, Vol. 2: Cars and Contraptions

    Yoshihito Isogawa

    Paperback (No Starch Press, Oct. 1, 2015)
    This second volume of The LEGO Power Functions Idea Book, Cars and Contraptions, showcases small projects to build with LEGO Technic gears, motors, gadgets, and other moving elements. You’ll find hundreds of clever, buildable mechanisms, each one demonstrating a key building technique or mechanical principle.You’ll learn to build four-wheel drive cars, adorable walking ‘bots, steerable tanks, robotic inchworms, and cars that can follow the edge of a table!Each model includes a list of required parts and colorful photographs that guide you through the build without the need for step-by-step instructions. As you build, you’ll explore the principles of gear systems, power translation, differentials, suspensions, and more.
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  • WeDo SINE WAVE CAR: THE YOSHIHITO'S CREATION BOOK

    Yoshihito Isogawa

    language (, June 3, 2017)
    This book includes one model which is well-selected as an attractive work from among a number of Yoshihito Isogawa's LEGO® creations. And the book also shows you step-by-step instructions to recreate the model.This book will be useful for those who would like to experience the specific mechanical building, those who would like to create new works for their children, and those who would like to learn the machine structure in the Yoshihito's way.If you would like to learn the mechanical engineering and robotics using LEGO® bricks in earnest, my books which were published by the USA publisher - "The LEGO® Power Functions Idea Book" series, "The LEGO® Technic Idea Book" series and "The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 Idea Book" are recommended.
  • The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Fantastic Contraptions

    Yoshihito Isogawa

    Paperback (No Starch Press, Oct. 1, 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.This visual guide, the third in the three-volume LEGO Technic Idea Book series, is the brainchild of master builder Yoshihito Isogawa of Tokyo, Japan. Each title is filled with photos of Isogawa's unique models, all of which are designed to fire the imaginations of LEGO builders young and old.Imagine. Create. Invent. Now, what will you build?NOTE: The LEGO Technic Idea Book series uses parts from various Technic sets. If you don't have some of the pieces shown in a particular model, experiment by substituting your own parts or visit the author's website for a list of the special parts used in the book.
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  • The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Wheeled Wonders

    Yoshihito Isogawa

    Paperback (No Starch Press, Oct. 1, 2010)
    The LEGO® Technic Idea Book: Wheeled Wonders is a collection of hundreds of mechanisms for cars, trucks, motorcycles, and other vehicles 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 Wheeled Wonders spin or move things, drag race, haul heavy gear, bump off walls, wind up and go, and much more. You'll discover how to build differential gears, implement steering and suspension, and design clutch and transmission systems to use in your own vehicles.This visual guide, the second in the three-volume LEGO Technic Idea Book series, is the brainchild of master builder Yoshihito Isogawa of Tokyo, Japan. Each title is filled with photos of Isogawa's unique models, all of which are designed to fire the imaginations of LEGO builders young and old.Imagine. Create. Invent. Now, what will you build?NOTE: The LEGO Technic Idea Book series uses parts from various Technic sets. If you don't have some of the pieces shown in a particular model, experiment by substituting your own parts or visit the author's website for a list of the special parts used in the book.
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  • The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines

    Yoshihito Isogawa

    Paperback (No Starch Press, Oct. 1, 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.This visual guide, the first in the three-volume LEGO Technic Idea Book series, is the brainchild of master builder Yoshihito Isogawa of Tokyo, Japan. Each title is filled with photos of Isogawa's unique models, all of which are designed to fire the imaginations of LEGO builders young and old.Imagine. Create. Invent. Now, what will you build?NOTE: The LEGO Technic Idea Book series uses parts from various Technic sets. If you don't have some of the pieces shown in a particular model, experiment by substituting your own parts or visit the No Starch Press website for a list of the special parts used in the book.
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  • WeDo PATAPATA: THE YOSHIHITO'S CREATION BOOK

    Yoshihito Isogawa

    language (, July 4, 2017)
    Here's a video for this model.https://youtu.be/Gfd2-z2kUJYHere's a parts list you'll need for building this model.http://www.isogawastudio.co.jp/legostudio/tycb/tycb.htmlThis book includes one model which is well-selected as an attractive work from among a number of Yoshihito Isogawa's LEGO® creations. And the book also shows you step-by-step instructions to recreate the model.This book will be useful for those who would like to experience the specific mechanical building, those who would like to create new works for their children, and those who would like to learn the machine structure in the Yoshihito's way.If you would like to learn the mechanical engineering and robotics using LEGO® bricks in earnest, my books which were published by the USA publisher - "The LEGO® Power Functions Idea Book" series, "The LEGO® Technic Idea Book" series and "The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 Idea Book" are recommended.http://www.nostarch.com/powerfunctions_sethttp://www.nostarch.com/technic_set.htmhttp://www.nostarch.com/ev3ideabook
  • WeDo RUDOLPH: THE YOSHIHITO'S CREATION BOOK

    Yoshihito Isogawa

    language (, July 16, 2017)
    Here's a video for this model.https://youtu.be/d6CaCIyJ0JwHere's a parts list you'll need for building this model.http://www.isogawastudio.co.jp/legostudio/tycb/tycb.htmlThis book includes one model which is well-selected as an attractive work from among a number of Yoshihito Isogawa's LEGO® creations. And the book also shows you step-by-step instructions to recreate the model.This book will be useful for those who would like to experience the specific mechanical building, those who would like to create new works for their children, and those who would like to learn the machine structure in the Yoshihito's way.If you would like to learn the mechanical engineering and robotics using LEGO® bricks in earnest, my books which were published by the USA publisher - "The LEGO® Power Functions Idea Book" series, "The LEGO® Technic Idea Book" series and "The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 Idea Book" are recommended.http://www.nostarch.com/powerfunctions_sethttp://www.nostarch.com/technic_set.htmhttp://www.nostarch.com/ev3ideabook
  • WeDo WALL TRACER: THE YOSHIHITO'S CREATION BOOK

    Yoshihito Isogawa

    language (Isogawa Studio, Inc., Jan. 31, 2017)
    This book includes one model which is well-selected as an attractive work from among a number of Yoshihito Isogawa's LEGO® creations. And the book also shows you step-by-step instructions to recreate the model.This book will be useful for those who would like to experience the specific mechanical building, those who would like to create new works for their children, and those who would like to learn the machine structure in the Yoshihito's way.If you would like to learn the mechanical engineering and robotics using LEGO® bricks in earnest, my books which were published by the USA publisher - "The LEGO® Power Functions Idea Book" series, "The LEGO® Technic Idea Book" series and "The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 Idea Book" are recommended.
  • WeDo SPHINX: THE YOSHIHITO'S CREATION BOOK

    Yoshihito Isogawa

    language (Isogawa Studio, Inc., Feb. 25, 2017)
    This book includes one model which is well-selected as an attractive work from among a number of Yoshihito Isogawa's LEGO® creations. And the book also shows you step-by-step instructions to recreate the model.This book will be useful for those who would like to experience the specific mechanical building, those who would like to create new works for their children, and those who would like to learn the machine structure in the Yoshihito's way.If you would like to learn the mechanical engineering and robotics using LEGO® bricks in earnest, my books which were published by the USA publisher - "The LEGO® Power Functions Idea Book" series, "The LEGO® Technic Idea Book" series and "The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 Idea Book" are recommended.