Tag Archives: wireless

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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Underwater Robot with the NXTBee

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Brane wrote us with a project he did for his engineering coursework that uses our NXTBee XBee Radio for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT:
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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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NXTBee and Labview for LEGO MINDSTORMS (LVLM)

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Dexter Industries

A few months back, Andrew Milluzi released Laview VI’s for the NXTBee. This week we tested the NXTBee with LVLM, the LabView for LEGO MINDSTORMS (LVLM). We also are posting a few examples of LEGO MINDSTORMS programming to show how to use the NXTBee and LVLM. 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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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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RoboCupJunior Discount: NXTBee

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Discount on NXTBee for RoboCupJunior teams! If you are a RoboCupJunior team that would like to use the NXTBee for communications between LEGO™ MINDSTORMS™ NXT’s in your competitions, we want to support you. Continue reading →

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WIFI: Updated NXC Library

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Dexter Industries

Wifi: Now for NXC. 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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WIFI Week: Communicating with Computers

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Dexter Industries

The second installment of Wifi Week at Dexter Industries. Today we’ll be walking you through our example of how to connect to other computers and internet devices with TCP protocol. In this post we use our wifi sensor to make a Lego MINDSTORMS NXT that receives texts. Continue reading →

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