Robots Ate My Job

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Dexter Industries

We’re big fans of the radio show Marketplace on NPR.  Marketplace recently did a fantastic week-long peice on how robots are changing the economy, for better and (some people think) for worse.

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NXTBee Direct Communication (Beta)

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Dexter Industries

We’ve recently been working on an example to communicate directly to individual XBee radios.  The NXTBee allows for mesh-networking and a whole lot of other really awesome capabilities of the XBee radio system.  One of those capabilities is to be able to send messages directly on a single radio, and only that radio.

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Coming Soon for WIFI . . .

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Dexter Industries

The LEGO MINDSTORMS for Operah, Explorer, Chrome, iOS, FirefoxA quick preview on something we’re working on with the WIFI Module for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT.  Over the past few months, we’ve shown how the sensor can be used to connect to the internet and fetch and post information.  You can connect via TCP, post a webpage, post information via Twitter, Pachube or Thingspeak.

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New NXTBee Library

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Mark Crosbie recently developed an advanced, yet easy to use library for the NXTBee.  The library surpasses anything we’ve developed for the NXTBee in terms of ability to send data: both for ease of use and for advanced user capabilities.  The library also comes with a Java class for developing programs to communicate with your computer.

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WIFI Week 2 Wrapup

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Dexter Industries

To wrap things up, we’re re-hashing the week and posting the code in one zip file in our Downloads section.



 

 

 

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DI WIFI Week 2: Lejos for WIFI

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Dexter Industries

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT WIFI with Lejos and JAVA

LeJOS examples for the WIFI Module for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT.

We’re very happy to announce that we now have drivers and examples for the WIFI module in LeJOS.

We’ve written about LeJOS before and we find it an absolutely awesome programming environment.

A very heartfelt thanks to Lasse for developing these drivers.  He is part of the team that developed the Dynaway Sorting Plant and Flying NXT Airship.

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DI WIFI Week 2: News Feed From Google

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Dexter Industries

WIFI-WEEK-2---News-from-Google to your NXT over the internet

News from Google to your LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT

We’re finishing up WIFI Week 2 with a small program that lets you download headlines from Google News and display them on the NXT using the Wifi Module.

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The Internet of Things: Thingspeak With DIWIFI and LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Dexter Industries

The INTERNET of Things for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT

Thingspeak with LEGO™ MINDSTORMS™ NXT

More on the internet of things today!  This post shows you how to use the WIFI Sensor for LEGO MINDSTORMS to post data to Thingspeak.com.

Thingspeak is “an open application platform designed to enable meaningful connections between things and people”.  In other words, meaningful connections between robots and people.

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DI WIFI Week 2: Weather From Google

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Dexter Industries

WIFI Week 2 Weather from Google

Weather with LEGO™ MINDSTORMS™ NXT

 Ever walked outside and realized that it’s cold and you forgot your jacket?

This robot might be able to help.  To demonstrate the power of the WIFI Sensor for LEGO™ MINDSTORMS™ NXT, yesterday we showed you how to share data on the internet.  Today, we’re showing you how to get some data.

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The Internet of Things: Pachube With DIWIFI and LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Pachube with LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT

Pachube with LEGO™ MINDSTORMS™ NXT

Pachube (pronounced as “Patch bay”) is an on-line database service allowing people to connect sensor-derived data (such as energy and environmental data from objects, devices & buildings) to the Web and to build their own applications based on that data.  In this post we show you how you can use the WIFI Module for LEGO™ MINDSTORMS™  NXT to become part of the internet of things.

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