Tag Archives: mindstorms NXT

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’s and RobotC 3.5

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Dexter Industries

A quick update on RobotC 3.5 and the NXTBee. Continue reading →

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Robot Control Over WIFI for LEGO MINDSTORMS (Video)

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Ever wanted to control a robot with your web browser?  Dexter Industries has written an example and library to help you do that.  Now you can communicate very quickly, with a webpage, from anywhere in the world.  The new example … Continue reading →

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Solar Powered LEGO Robot Workshops Are a Hit with Students and Teachers

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Recently Dexter Industries teamed up with the University of Arizona to bring solar powered robots to engineering teaching.  Students are getting hands-on learning experience in solar engineering using the dSolar to power their LEGO MINDSTORMS robots. A teaching concept that … Continue reading →

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Amazon.com in Germany

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Hallo Deutschland!

We are trying to get a little more international exposure and have expanded into Amazon.de. Continue reading →

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Storming Robots Win Robocup Jr. With the Thermal Infrared Sensor

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Congratulations to the Storming Robots Team from Branchburg New Jersery, who alerted us that they have won the RoboCup Junior US Rescue B competition and will be travelling to the World Event in June. Continue reading →

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Announcing 2012 MoonBots A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge!

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Dexter Industries

This year, Dexter Industries is bringing sustainability to Moonbots by providing 30 finalists with dSolar 4W systems. Teams will power their lunar robots with solar power, just like a real mission to the moon! Continue reading →

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leJOS Class for NXTBee

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Mark at Mastincrosbie.com has just released a leJos class for the NXTBee. The new class makes it easy to integrate wireless communications with the NXTBee into your LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT project. Continue reading →

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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. Continue reading →

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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. Continue reading →

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