Tag Archives: mindstorms

20 Days of Free Shipping on Amazon

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Dexter Industries

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. Did you like this? Share it:

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New Partnership, EU Customers Better Served

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Today we would like to announce a new development in our partnership with Generation Robots.  In an effort to better serve our European customers, starting today, Generation Robots has become the exclusive distributor of Dexter Industries products inside the EU … 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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Introducing Websockets for WIFI

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Imagine . . . controlling your LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot from everywhere in the world from any web-enabled device: PC, Macbook, laptop, Android smartphone, iPhone, or iPad. Finally . . . you can! Websockets are a way to communicate with webpages … 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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Distance Testing the NXTBee

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Dexter Industries

We recently wanted to distance test the NXTBee.  In this post, we review some of the distance results of testing the distance of the NXTBee XBee radios for LEGO MINDSTORMS. The NXTBee has some major advantages over the Bluetooth module … 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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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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