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Author Archives: Dexter Industries
Storming Robots Win Robocup Jr. With the Thermal Infrared Sensor
Congratulations to the Storming Robots Team from Branchburg New Jersery, who alerted us that they have won the RoboCup Junior US Rescue B competition and will be travelling to the World Event in June. Continue reading
Posted in Education, RoboCup Jr, Thermal Infrared Sensor
Tagged competitions, mindstorm, mindstorms, mindstorms NXT, Robocup, Robocup Jr, ROBOCUPJUNIOR, RobotC, thermal infrared
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Announcing 2012 MoonBots A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge!
This year, Dexter Industries is bringing sustainability to Moonbots by providing 30 finalists with dSolar 4W systems. Teams will power their lunar robots with solar power, just like a real mission to the moon! Continue reading
Posted in dSolar, Education, Moonbots
Tagged contest, dSolar, lego, mindstorm, mindstorms, mindstorms NXT, Mindstorms NXTS, moonbots, projects, solar
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Moonbots 2012 Begins: A Video Kickoff
What’s Moonbots 2012 all about? Here’s a quick video . . . Continue reading
leJOS Class for NXTBee
Mark at Mastincrosbie.com has just released a leJos class for the NXTBee. The new class makes it easy to integrate wireless communications with the NXTBee into your LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT project. Continue reading
Posted in Software and Drivers, Wireless
Tagged lejos, mindstorms NXT, Mindstorms NXTS, NXTBee, software, wireless, xbee
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RoboCup Jr. Rescue with the Thermal Infrared Sensor
Ditemar writes to us about his teams recent victory in the Austrain RoboCup Junior Rescue Competition. Pictures and videos! Continue reading
Posted in RoboCup Jr, Thermal Infrared Sensor
Tagged COOL, RobocupJr., thermal infrared, TIR
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RobotC for Arduino
Now one of our favorite software systems, RobotC, is combined with one of our favorite hardware systems, Arduino. Continue reading
dIMU Physics Experiment
Thanks to Marcelino Andrade who sent us a video and explanation of some physics demonstrations he’s doing for his students with the dIMU for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT.
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Sneak Preview
A sneak preview of something coming soon. Aswin over at Guy NXT Door has released a few sneak videos of something that will be available to the LEGO community soon. Check out the videos below of that something. Continue reading
Engineers and Inventors: Ashok Gadgil and His Three World-Changing Inventions
Ashok Gadgil is a professor at UC Berkeley. But in his spare time, he’s come up with solutions for water, cooking, and energy quandaries, improving lives from the Sudan to India. Continue reading
DIWIFI Weather: Improved
Improvements Continue reading