Today we look at Laurens Valk’s AnyWay Segway, with the dIMU as the stabilizing sensor. The project takes less than 30 minutes to build and is one of the coolest things you can make with your LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT.

Our latest distributor: Robomatter at Carnegie Mellon University!

This post comes from the work done by Aswin, a self-proclaimed “Dutch Guy“.  Aswin is an expert in Inertial Motion Units, having developed one from parts he bought on sparkfun.  Because of this, we reached out to Aswin when we were developing the dIMU.  He’s done a lot of posts on Inertial Motion Units for the NXT, and he’s...

LVLM: now for the dIMU!

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Next week Dexter Industries will be celebrating dIMU Days with a Free Giveaway. Come back on Monday to figure out the 5 W's . . .

Just in time for the holidays to start, Dexter Industries is now shipping via UPS. Customers will notice a whole new range of options, including overnight, next day, and UPS shipping!

Good news for robotics enthusiasts in the U.K.! Active Robots is now carrying Dexter Industries Sensors in the United Kingdom.

We just received a new book from Brian Bagnall: Intelligence Unleashed. I, John, personally, have been eagerly awaiting the book because I've been wanting an excuse to learn the JAVA programming language for a long time.

We saw this fascinating article on the New York Times about mechanical computers. Long before the digital age, computers were being used for practical purposes. We saw this post in the NY Times and it reminded us of something that we saw on our first trip to China: a Jacquard Loom.  Arguably, it might be the first robotic manufacturing...