Category Archives: Education

Curiosity Lands!

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Great news from NASA this morning, Curiosity Mars Rover has landed successfully. Our hats are off to the NASA engineers that made this happen!

In celebration (or emulation?) the folks over at Battlebots.com have put together a fantastic model of the Mars Rover made entirely from LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT. More information and pictures on their website here. Continue reading →

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Solar Powered LEGO Robot Workshops Are a Hit with Students and Teachers

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Recently Dexter Industries teamed up with the University of Arizona to bring solar powered robots to engineering teaching.  Students are getting hands-on learning experience in solar engineering using the dSolar to power their LEGO MINDSTORMS robots. A teaching concept that … Continue reading →

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Amazon.com in Germany

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Hallo Deutschland!

We are trying to get a little more international exposure and have expanded into Amazon.de. Continue reading →

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Installing 3rd Party NXT-G Blocks Tutorial

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Having trouble getting third party NXT-G Blocks installed?  We’ve had this video for some time, but wanted to make a step-by-step tutorial for installing LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 3rd Party Blocks. So we made a tutorial for installing 3rd party NXT-G … Continue reading →

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Storming Robots Win Robocup Jr. With the Thermal Infrared Sensor

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Dexter Industries

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 →

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Announcing 2012 MoonBots A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge!

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Dexter Industries

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 →

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Moonbots 2012 Begins: A Video Kickoff

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Dexter Industries

What’s Moonbots 2012 all about? Here’s a quick video . . . Continue reading →

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dIMU Physics Experiment

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Dexter Industries

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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Happy Pi Day!

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Pi, Greek letter (), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th. Pi = 3.1415926535… Continue reading →

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RoboCupJunior Rescue Discount

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Robocup Jr. teams are gearing up for competitions this year and Dexter Industries wants to support you! Contact us for a coupon for 10% off through our website for your team. All you have to do is contact us through our “Contact Us” page, tell us about your team, and we’ll send you a coupon.
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