The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines

　　LEGO TECHNIC is designed to allow builders to create more advanced models with moving parts, like those built with LEGO MINDSTORMS. The LEGO TECHNIC Idea Book: Gears offers hundreds of ideas and examples for building mechanisms with TECHNIC. This volume focuses on gears and power transmission. The book is color throughout, with little to no text accompanying its diagrams; rather than tell you what to think, you're encouraged to use your own imagination. The book's illustrations demonstrate various ways to combine TECHNIC gears, which you'll use as a starting point for your own creations. Gears begins with the basics of gears, shafts, connectors, and gear combinations, then demonstrates more complex actions, like how to build winches, cranes, and chains; change rotational motion to linear motion; launch projectiles with rubber bands; change speed and direction; and even create musical instruments. The LEGO TECHNIC Idea Books are for anyone who wants to create a moving masterpiece, as well as those who want to make original robots with MINDSTORMS. It can also be used to demonstrate how machines work and to experience the fun of mechanics.

作者簡介

　　Yoshihito Isogawa is a LEGO luminary with 42 years of experience. He began writing computer manuals while at the Tokyo University of Science and founded Isogawa Studio, Inc. soon after. He has twice won the grand prize in the Japan Manual Contest held by the Japan Technical Communicators Association and he has won outstanding performance awards many times. He currently lives in Tokyo.