Laurens Valk, of Mindstorms NXT building fame and popular line of books, has just released his latest model:  Manty.  Manty is a Preying Mantis-inspired robot made of LEGO Mindstorms.

The latest issue of the MagPi has been released!  The Dexter Industries BrickPi is square on the cover, bringing robotics to the Raspberry Pi! Check out the latest edition here. It is ideal for all levels of user and a great way to get your Raspberry Pi moving.  Head over to page 4 for more information.

This week we learned about two amazing projects with the dLight LED system for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT.  One is a high-tech indoor GPS system, the other is high art created with the dLight.          

The folks at Tufts CEEO have been working with a BrickPi over the past few weeks.  They have been working to bring the graphical programming language BlockyTalky to the BrickPi and Raspberry Pi. Wait, what’s the BrickPi?  The BrickPi is a device that brings the Raspberry Pi to LEGO Mindstorms.

We were honored last week to be featured on HumansInvent.com We got a chance to talk a little bit about the BrickPi, how Dexter Industries got started, and where we came up with the idea for the BrickPi. See more on the website here:  http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/12370/supercharging-lego-with-the-raspberry-pi/

LEGO® Mindstorm is a cool robot kit designed by LEGO, but there hasn’t been a good way to connect it to the internet — until now! The BrickPi helps you use LEGO® Mindstorm sensors, motors, and parts to build a robot that can connect to the web to send or receive information, for remote control, or even be networked together. Swap out the Mindstorm NXT...

Update 8/2013: Our kickstarter has been funded and the BrickPi is now for sale here. We’ve just launched a Kickstarter campaign for the BrickPi!  We’ve had a phenomenal response, surpassing our funding goal by over 800% in just a few days. The BrickPi is a culmination of some of the blog posts and projects we’ve done over the last few...

We’ve just launched a Kickstarter campaign for the BrickPi!  We’ve had a phenomenal response, surpassing our funding goal by over 800% in just a few days. The campaign is fully funded, but that doesn’t mean the work is over.  Please take a look and give us your thoughts: on the design, the models we built, and what we could...

A few weeks back we showed you a few things that we were working on. This included an Arduino Playstation Controller Adapter, an Arduino Shield for connecting your Playstation Dualshock Controller. We are releasing it into the wild!

This month we’re going to try something new.  We recently set up an Endicia account, that lets us ship small packages at a very inexpensive rate.  We want to give it a test run to make sure that, first and foremost, we’re not sacrificing service to our customers.  To do that, we’re offering free domestic (US) shipping for orders...