An iPhone controlled LEGO MINDSTORMS robot (video)

Hi everyone, my name is Adam and I’m an engineer at Dexter Industries.  I hacked a dSolar adapter for the 9v power coupling on our NXTBee Pro and Wifi units.  I thought it would be fun to power some of our radio communication devices with the sun.  It’s very simple to make, and John thought it was a cool...

Have you ever wanted to control your robot with your iPhone, iPad, or MacBook?

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,...

Imagine . . . controlling your LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot from everywhere in the world from any web-enabled device: PC, Macbook, laptop, Android smartphone, iPhone, or iPad. Finally . . . you can! Websockets are a way to communicate with webpages that allow you to send data back and forth to a server or another web-enabled device.  A lot of...

Improvements

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

Pachube (pronounced as "Patch bay") is an on-line database service allowing people to connect sensor-derived data. Now, with the WIFI sensor, your robot can get and share data with the rest of the world.

Wifi: Now for NXC.

Sequels are rarely better than the original.  But Mark Crosbie has done a fantastic job making the first LEGO Street View Car into an even more awesome LEGO Street View Car.  This is NOT the sequel that bombed . . .