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I'm glad you posted this Aries. I never have checked out Martin's blog before, before today that is. I'm glad I have. In fact, his newest (newer) post again mentions Coroware - stuff I like to see in any form of news.

My new book, "Professional Microsoft Robotics Studio" has just appeared on the J. S. Wiley and Sons online catalog here. The book is due out in August of this year. This nearly 800-page monster builds up three real-world robot projects using three different robots to teach basic robotics, MSRS technology, MSRS programming techniques, simulation, the Visual Programming Language and development best practices. One of the three featured robots is the little yellow fellow I posted about below. The book is aimed at hobbyists and educators and will appeal most to people with some programming experience up through advanced professional and graduate-level roboticists.

One chapter instructs readers how to build the yellow robot from parts in two weekends. We're hopeful that CoroWare will be able to offer the complete kit of parts to go along with the book. Supplemental Materials CD will also contain a special book-edition of the CoroWare PlusPack to help readers with some of the more advanced examples, particularly in simulation and computer vision.
The book features a Lynxmotion arm playing chess, an iRobot Create finding and watering household plants, and the yellow kit-built robot doing an outdoor autonomous GPS navigation and vision-recognition task similar to the SRS RoboMagellan task.

Special thanks go to the folks at Microsoft, CoroWare, Lynxmotion, iRobot, and DimensionEngineering for their support for this project.

GO MARTIN!!!!