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Winner: dSwitch For LEGO MINDSTORMS Giveaway

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Thanks to everyone who participated in our contest last week! We had some fabulous ideas that included . . . Continue reading →

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dSwitch For LEGO MINDSTORMS Giveaway

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Dexter Industries

To help announce our re-introduction of the dSwitch, we’re going give away a free one this week.  Wait, what’s the dSwitch?  The dSwitch is a controller designed to be used with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT hardware and software.   The dSwitch controls … Continue reading →

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(re)Introducing the dSwitch

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Dexter Industries

This week we are re-introducing the dSwitch for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT.  The dSwitch is a device that controls appliances such as a lamp, toaster, or other device with the LEGO MINDSTORMS brick. We ran out of dSwitch stock for a … Continue reading →

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dSwitch with RobotC and Lejos

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Dexter Industries

In this post, we just want to cover how to use the dSwitch with two languages: RobotC and Lejos.  To use the dSwitch in NXT-G, see our website for the block. Did you like this? Share it:

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Temperature Control For Brewing Beer

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Dexter Industries

Humans have been brewing beer for thousands of years.  Crucial to quality brewing is temperature control.  Two typical steps in the process are steeping grains and the boil.  Both steps require strict temperature control; getting it wrong can make a … Continue reading →

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Tired of Turning off the Lights? Saving Electricity with the dSwitch and the TweetaWatt

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Dexter Industries

Earlier we posted on how we used some free time over the holidays to make Adafruit’s Tweet-A-Watt project. We wanted to see if we could combine the device with the dSwitch and conserve some energy around the office. We wrote … Continue reading →

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dSwitch Aquasaurs Temp Monitor by Plastibots.com

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Dexter Industries

Dave Astolfo’s Plastibots blog recently put together a really clever aquarium monitor and temperature controller using some clever programming and the dSwitch. Check it out here: http://www.plastibots.com/?p=1429 If you have a clever use for the dSwitch, write us or send … Continue reading →

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The Clapper – Revisited

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Dexter Industries

Clap on. Clap off. Watching old TV shows, we remembered that old advertisement and a light bulb clapped on in our heads. With lots of time on our hands over the weekend, we put a simple clapper together to turn … Continue reading →

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dSwitch Arrives

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Dexter Industries

Check out our newest invention, the dSwitch! Watch a video or check out the site at http://dexterindustries.com/Products.html Did you like this? Share it:

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