A few weeks back we completed our mission to launch a BrickPi, Raspberry Pi, and Raspberry Pi camera up into near space with a high altitude balloon. We have completed our documentation and made a video

past week we successfully launched a BrickPi with a high altitude balloon, and even better recovered it.  Over the next few weeks we’ll be assembling the footage and pictures into a more coherent view of what happened.

Have you ever wanted to get that Kindle Book into another format, or just copy the text? Have you ever wanted to get all of your highlights or notes off your Kindle? In this project we make an ebook reading robot with the BrickPi.  We use the BrickPi to control the LEGO  page turner, a RaspberryPi camera to take pictures...

This week we wanted to share a few projects that have already started coming out, using the BrickPi.  These three projects were shared on our forums. Did we miss yours?  Let us know about your project in the forums and we’ll add it in! Alpha “pi” Rex – The first humanoid project we’ve seen! Shellby 2 – By Tim...

Announcing SimpleBot: the simplest BrickPi model.  Weighing in at a total of 46 parts(most of them are connectors) and two motors, this minimalist design uses as few parts as possible. We have building instructions and sample code all up on the SimpleBot page.  SimpleBot is a great place to start for a first robot with the BrickPi!

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.

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.

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...