We set out to put the new Dexter Industries Thermometers  through trials.  How accurate is it?  How quickly does it respond to temperature changes?  What kind of resolution do we get with it?  Just how good is the thermometer? First, Brian Davis wrote a great blog entry about the Lego thermometers and a really nice analysis of their performance. ...

Humans have been brewing beer for thousands of years.  Crucial to quality brewing is temperature control.  Two typical steps in the process are steeping grains and the boil.  Both steps require strict temperature control; getting it wrong can make a mess, and even more tragic, destroy the beer  Learn more about how to avoid tragedy . . .

Earlier we posted on how we used some free time over the holidays to make Adafruit’s Tweet-A-Watt project. We wanted to see if we could combine the device with the dSwitch and conserve some energy around the office. We wrote a quick program that “listens” for a human, and turns the lights off if no one is there. The...

Dave Astolfo’s Plastibots blog recently put together a really clever aquarium monitor and temperature controller using some clever programming and the dSwitch. Check it out here: http://www.plastibots.com/?p=1429 If you have a clever use for the dSwitch, write us or send us a message through Facebook! Check out the dSwitch here.

Clap on. Clap off. Watching old TV shows, we remembered that old advertisement and a light bulb clapped on in our heads. With lots of time on our hands over the weekend, we put a simple clapper together to turn the lights on and off. Then we thought, it’d be pretty cool to have some dancing lights when we...

Check out our newest invention, the dSwitch! Watch a video or check out the site at http://dexterindustries.com/Products.html