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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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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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DIWIFI Weather: Improved

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Improvements Continue reading →

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dCompass Ideas, Giveaway

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Dexter Industries

dCompass project ideas and a givewaway. Continue reading →

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GENIUS Team Project for FLL

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Team GENIUS introduces their Cool Factor for the Body Forward 2010-2011 Project. A really awesome project! Continue reading →

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Live Plotting Map Data from the dGPS

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Dexter Industries

Live Data Plotting from the dGPS using the NXTBee. Continue reading →

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Segway Roundup with the dIMU

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Dexter Industries

To finish off our week of dIMU posts, we thought we’d share some videos. One of the most amazing things you can make with the dIMU is a balancing robot, similar to a Segway. We’ve all seen this before, but here is a roundup of different Segways that you can build, some bloopers from when we first got started, and a video of Darth Vader riding around on his own AnyWay. Continue reading →

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Lego Street View Car: Part 2

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Dexter Industries

Sequels are rarely better than the original.  But Mark Crosbie has done a fantastic job making the first LEGO Street View Car into an even more awesome LEGO Street View Car.  This is NOT the sequel that bombed . . .
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NXTBee Tutorial

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Dexter Industries

A wonderfully simple tutorial on the NXTBee. Continue reading →

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Project: Thermal Infrared Turret Bot

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Dexter Industries

A very cool project from a student at Tufts using the TIR sensor and the dFlex sensor. The Turret project will use a heat sensor and motors to find a person in a room and then shoot them with a rubber band. Continue reading →

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