Introducting the dLight, an LED light system for the LEGO MINDSTORMS. Let there be light!

This week we’ve posted a quick tutorial to show how we connected an amazing little computer called the Raspberry Pi and some amazing LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT sensors. For those that haven’t heard, the Raspberry Pi is a small, $25 Linux computer, about the size of a (large) credit card.

We recently discovered this fantastic video of a LEGO MINDSTORMS creation: The Flying Fortress LEGO Blimp.  The project is a fantastic two-ballooned flying blimp made of LEGOs and controlled with a pair of NXTBees.

A segway driven by a robot using the Dexter Industries dIMU for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT.

Ever wanted to control a robot with your web browser?  Dexter Industries has written an example and library to help you do that.  Now you can communicate very quickly, with a webpage, from anywhere in the world.  The new example software allows a user to dynamically control the robot from a webpage from a browser on a laptop, computer,...

A quick preview on something we're working on with the WIFI sensor . . .

From Robot Square - A new type of Segway . . . but it's missing a wheel! A self-balancing LEGO MINDSTORMS unicycle!

Live Data Plotting from the dGPS using the NXTBee.

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...

Why studying engineering is not boring. Popular Science explains how, rather than read a book in college, you can blow things up.