Kickstarter Project: BrickPi for the Raspberry Pi!

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Dexter Industries

Raspberry Pi and LEGOWe’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 months controlling LEGOs with the Raspberry Pi. So many people were interested, we decided to combine it all into one single board that allowed you to control motors and read sensors with the Raspberry Pi.

Robot Arm with the Raspberry Pi and LEGO MINDSTORMSEven though the campaign is fully funded, please take a look and give us your thoughts!  The primary reason we wanted to do a Kickstarter campaign for this project was to try to get community feedback.

Check out the project and let us know what you think about it.  We have a bunch of new video and pictures up on the Kickstarter page that showcase some of the projects you can build with the BrickPi.

And if you’d like to back the project, that’s awesome too!

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New Product: Arduino Playstation Controller Adapter

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Dexter Industries

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!

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May: Free Shipping Within the United States

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Dexter Industries

USPSThis 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 of any size within the continental US for all of May.

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Dexter Industries Mysteries Revealed

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Dexter Industries

Playstation for Arduino

Last week we held a small contest to see who could guess what our mystery projects were. This week, we reveal the answers, as well as the winner.

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Mysteries from Dexter Industries Labs

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Dexter Industries

MysteryWe’ve been working overtime on a few new projects.  These prototypes are all in the experimental stage.

Can you guess what they are?

Guess what these things are below in the comments and next week, we’ll send you one of the comment makers, chosen at random, a free dCompass.  Bonus points if you enter a possible name!

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Free dLights

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Dexter Industries

dLight on the front of a LEGO MINDSTORMS motorcycle.Aswin’s NXT time blog is giving away a free dLight set.  All you have to do is respond on his blog by April 1st.  We’re pretty sure this isn’t an April 1st prank; Aswin was the father of the dLight and helped us bring the dLight to fruition. Continue reading →

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New Product: dLights for your Robot!

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Dexter Industries

dLight LED for LEGO

Let there be light!

Introducing the dLight, Dexter Industries latest accessory for the  LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT!  The dLight is an LED lighting system for LEGO robots.  The multi-colored LED’s are programmable for color, power, and blink rate.  Give your LEGO robot a bright future with the dLight!

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MINDSTORMS Robot, Raspberry Pi Brains

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Dexter Industries

LEGO Body, Raspberry Pi Brains.Since we first got the Raspberry Pi, we have wanted to make a robot out of it.  There aren’t many kits out there yet that let you do that (yet).  This HowTo shows you how we hacked together a motor controller from the Raspberry Pi and used it to control LEGO MINDSTORMS Motors.

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Connecting the Arduino and the LEGO MINDSTORMS: HowTo

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Dexter Industries

Get the LEGO MINDSTORMS and Arduino talking.This week we got back to our hacking spree: we made an Arduino and LEGO MINDSTORMS talk.  This weeks example gets the Arduino and the NXT Continue reading →

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Labview for NXTBee and RS485

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Dexter Industries

Andrew Milluzi just posted an in-depth article on using the NXTBee radios with Labview for LEGO MINDSTORMS (LVLM).  He gives some great background information on data Throughput, Latency, and Speed.

Check out his blog post here: http://08milluz.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/throughput-latency-and-bus-speed/

You can also find some software on his website for using the NXTBee’s and LVLM.  While RS485 communications are not officially supported in Labview for LEGO MINDSTORMS, he has some great downloads that work very well with the NXTBee.

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