Tag Archives: LEGO MINDSTORMS

Kickstarter Project: BrickPi for the Raspberry Pi!

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Dexter Industries

We’ve just launched a Kickstarter campaign for the BrickPi!  We’ve had a phenomenal response, surpassing our funding goal by over 800% in just a few days. The BrickPi is a culmination of some of the blog posts and projects we’ve done … Continue reading →

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Dexter Industries Mysteries Revealed

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Dexter Industries

Last week we held a small contest to see who could guess what our mystery projects were. This week, we reveal the answers, as well as the winner. Did you like this? Share it:

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Mysteries from Dexter Industries Labs

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Dexter Industries

We give away a free LEGO MINDSTORMS dCompass sensor for folks that take a crack at guessing what we’re working on in our lab. Continue reading →

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Free dLights

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Dexter Industries

A free giveaway of the dLight for LEGO MINDSTORMS. Continue reading →

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New Product: dLights for your Robot!

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Dexter Industries

Introducting the dLight, an LED light system for the LEGO MINDSTORMS. Let there be light! Continue reading →

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MINDSTORMS Robot, Raspberry Pi Brains

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Dexter Industries

Since we first got the Raspberry Pi, we have wanted to make a robot out of it. There aren’t many kits out there yet that let you do that (yet). This HowTo shows you how we hacked together a motor controller from the Raspberry Pi and used it to control LEGO MINDSTORMS Motors. Continue reading →

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Connecting the Arduino and the LEGO MINDSTORMS: HowTo

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Dexter Industries

This week we got back to our hacking spree: we made an Arduino and LEGO MINDSTORMS talk.  This weeks example gets the Arduino and the NXT Did you like this? Share it:

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RoboCupJunior Rescue 2013

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Dexter Industries

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. Did you like this? Share … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi and LEGO MINDSTORMS Sensors

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Dexter Industries

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 … Continue reading →

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NXTBee and The Flying Fortress LEGO Blimp

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Dexter Industries

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. Did you like this? Share it:

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