It’s almost time for RoboCupJunior competitions to start! Last year some fantastic teams competed, and some very successful teams used Dexter Industries Sensors for the competition.
This year we’re offering the same discounts to RoboCupJunior teams competing. Continue reading
Continuing our Raspberry Pi Hacking Spree . . . this week we put together a quick HowTo on getting the Raspberry Pi to read a LEGO MINDSTORMS Touch Sensor.
This week we’ve posted a quick tutorial to show how we connected an amazing little computer called the Raspberry Pi and some amazing LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT sensors.
For those that haven’t heard, the Raspberry Pi is a small, $25 Linux computer, about the size of a (large) credit card.
We recently discovered this fantastic video of a LEGO MINDSTORMS creation: The Flying Fortress LEGO Blimp. The project is a fantastic two-ballooned flying blimp made of LEGOs and controlled with a pair of NXTBees. Continue reading
We were alerted to this awesome video of the NXTBee: obstacle avoidance. The NXTBee is used to send data back to a computer where it is processed and gives commands on how to proceed. Continue reading
Just a reminder: 6 days of free shipping from our Amazon store left! See our previous post for more information on our shipping this week and next!
Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 MoonBots Competition! A great effort by all the teams! We have really enjoyed participating in MoonBots this year and we can’t wait for next years competition!
Dexter Industries is offering free shipping from our Amazon store for the next 20 days! Everything in our Amazon store will be shipped free until December 20th.
Using the Dexter Industries WIFI Sensor, Simon has controlled a MINDSTORMS robot with his iPhone. A really cool video, details are to emerge soon!
Actually, it was an epic proposal. Of marriage.
As founder of Dexter Industries, I try to write every single customer and see that each purchase from our website is working out. When I checked in on Jay Davey and his purchase of a dGPS, I thought we would be getting a usual response: “Worked ok” “Need to improve this” or “<SPAM>”.
Instead, I got a very heart-warming response from Jay about how he used it in an epic proposal of marriage to his future wife. Continue reading
