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

Hallo Deutschland! We are trying to get a little more international exposure and have expanded into Amazon.de.

Having trouble getting third party NXT-G Blocks installed?  We’ve had this video for some time, but wanted to make a step-by-step tutorial for installing LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 3rd Party Blocks. So we made a tutorial for installing 3rd party NXT-G Blocks. You can see the tutorial here. You can watch the video here.

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 found on the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT.  The advantages include:

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.

Thanks to everyone who participated in our contest last week! We had some fabulous ideas that included . . .

To help announce our re-introduction of the dSwitch, we’re going give away a free one this week.  Wait, what’s the dSwitch?  The dSwitch is a controller designed to be used with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT hardware and software.   The dSwitch controls any appliance in your house, such as a light, a toaster, or anything else you can plug into a...

This week we are re-introducing the dSwitch for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT.  The dSwitch is a device that controls appliances such as a lamp, toaster, or other device with the LEGO MINDSTORMS brick. We ran out of dSwitch stock for a while, we used the opportunity to re-design it a bit.  The dSwitch now uses the PowerSwitchTail II to control...

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.

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!