Archive for 2013

Archive for 2013

  • Blocky Talky Raspberry Pi and BrickPi

    BrickPi and BlockyTalky

    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.

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  • BrickPi on HumansInvent

    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/

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  • Connect LEGO Robots to the Internet

    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...

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  • Raspberry Pi and LEGO

    Kickstarter Project: BrickPi for the Raspberry Pi!

    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...

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  • Kickstarter Campaign!

    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...

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  • Playstation 2 Shield for Arduino

    New Product: Arduino Playstation Controller Adapter

    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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  • USPS

    May: Free Shipping Within the United States

    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...

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  • Playstation 2 Shield for Arduino

    Dexter Industries Mysteries Revealed

    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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  • BrickPi on Tracks

    Introductions

    BrickPi A robot with the brains of a Raspberry Pi and the easy build of LEGO®. See what the BrickPi is on our Introductions Page.  

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  • Mystery

    Mysteries from Dexter Industries Labs

    We give away a free LEGO MINDSTORMS dCompass sensor for folks that take a crack at guessing what we're working on in our lab.

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