Tag Archives: RobotC

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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RobotC for Arduino

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Now one of our favorite software systems, RobotC, is combined with one of our favorite hardware systems, Arduino. Continue reading →

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DIWIFI Weather: Improved

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Improvements 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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Wifi Week: Crank Up The Speed!

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Dexter Industries

Communicate between the NXT and the rest of the world faster than you ever have before: unleash the speed of high speed communications with the Wifi Sensor. Continue reading →

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WIFI Week: PING!

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Dexter Industries

Part 3 of our Wifi Week examples: ping! Find the IP address of your favorite website, and then ping it. Got a fast connection? Prove it with Ping! Continue reading →

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Multirobot Roundup

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Dexter Industries

Multirobot Communication Examples from Robotics Academy using the NXTBees and Lego Mindstorms NXT. Great videos! Continue reading →

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Wheel Chair Control with the NXTBee, RobotC

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Dexter Industries

Very cool project using the NXTBee: “Independent Wheelchair Control for a Quadriplegic” Continue reading →

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NXTBee Lookup Table Example

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dexter Industries

A lookup table is a way to put a checksum into a transmission. Rather than calculate out the checksum, a lookup table operates much faster. Continue reading →

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