Tag: LEGO

  • Embrace Your Inner Geek In Style

    Embrace Your Inner Geek In Style

    This post is dedicated to geeks who want to let their passions shine through their decor. The graphic below gives cool examples of accessories that you can introduce into your home to give people an idea of the geekier side of your life. Some are subtle, like the equation bookshelf, while others are more in…

  • Beautiful Minecraft Coffee Table Book Features Stunning In Game Built Art

    Beautiful Minecraft Coffee Table Book Features Stunning In Game Built Art

    Twelve years ago to the day,  back in the year 2009 – a Video game called #Minecraft was unassumingly released. The sandbox video game became the second best selling PC-based game in history and was bought by Microsoft for $2.5B usd in 2014.  In keeping with our look back celebration, let’s check out this wonderful…

  • New Book Is Inventors Guide To Open Source Arduino Microcontroller

    New Book Is Inventors Guide To Open Source Arduino Microcontroller

    San Francisco, CA —School’s out for summer, but learning doesn’t have to stop at the classroom door. For parents and educators looking to keep their students exploring, tinkering, and creating, No Starch Press offers the latest addition to its lineup of STEM books. This time focusing on the Arduino microcontroller. The Arduino Inventor’s Guide (No…

  • LEGO Books From Worlds Leading Builder Yoshihito Isogawa

    LEGO Books From Worlds Leading Builder Yoshihito Isogawa

    Yoshihito Isogawa believes his books should be like the LEGO brick—minimalist, colorful, and full of possibility. In his nearly-wordless releases from No Starch Press, such as The LEGO Power Functions Idea Books (No Starch Press, $24.95 USD each, 324 pp./328pp., October 2015), Isogawa shares hundreds of creative ways to build mechanisms with Power Functions, a wildly…

  • LEGO Mindstorms EV3 book is a guide to building and programming Robots

    LEGO Mindstorms EV3 book is a guide to building and programming Robots

    San Francisco, CA,  The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Discovery Book (No Starch Press, June 2014, 396 pp., $34.95, ISBN 9781593275327) is the latest No Starch Press book to tackle the LEGO MINDSTORMS robotics system. This second edition of the best-selling LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book remains the ultimate beginner’s guide to this powerful kit for…