Category Archives: projects

Quadrotor, LEGO, and Arduino

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Today, we’re just working on some far out projects. One thing we’ve wanted to work on for a long time is a quadrotor. Naturally, we made some mistakes, and were only able to get two rotors working. But here’s a video of the first test-flight. Continue reading →

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dCompass Ideas, Giveaway

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Dexter Industries

dCompass project ideas and a givewaway. Continue reading →

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New Lab: NXT Solar Powered Car

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Explore solar energy and electric vehicles by designing and testing a solar powered car using LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT and Dexter Industries dSolar 4W. Continue reading →

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New Lab: Measure Heat from a Computer With a Thermal Infrared Sensor

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Dexter Industries

A great new lab from K12Lab.com: using the Thermal Infrared Sensor to Measure Heat From a Computer Continue reading →

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Live Plotting Map Data from the dGPS

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Dexter Industries

Live Data Plotting from the dGPS using the NXTBee. Continue reading →

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Wifi Power!

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Dexter Industries

A quick project for powering your DIWIFI sensor. If you’re running on batteries, here’s another option. Continue reading →

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Segway Roundup with the dIMU

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Dexter Industries

To finish off our week of dIMU posts, we thought we’d share some videos. One of the most amazing things you can make with the dIMU is a balancing robot, similar to a Segway. We’ve all seen this before, but here is a roundup of different Segways that you can build, some bloopers from when we first got started, and a video of Darth Vader riding around on his own AnyWay. Continue reading →

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Lego Street View Car: Part 2

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Dexter Industries

Sequels are rarely better than the original.  But Mark Crosbie has done a fantastic job making the first LEGO Street View Car into an even more awesome LEGO Street View Car.  This is NOT the sequel that bombed . . .
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WIFI Week: Setting Up a Webserver

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Dexter Industries

Setting up a webserver for your MINDSTORMS robot can be done now with the Dexter Industries Wifi sensor.  A few months back, Botbench setup an incredible example of a webserver.  This example is based largely off the work done there. … Continue reading →

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Wheel Chair Control with the NXTBee, RobotC

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Dexter Industries

Very cool project using the NXTBee: “Independent Wheelchair Control for a Quadriplegic” Continue reading →

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