Hallo Deutschland! We are trying to get a little more international exposure and have expanded into Amazon.de.

We recently wanted to distance test the NXTBee.  In this post, we review some of the distance results of testing the distance of the NXTBee XBee radios for LEGO MINDSTORMS. The NXTBee has some major advantages over the Bluetooth module found on the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT.  The advantages include:

Congratulations to the Storming Robots Team from Branchburg New Jersery, who alerted us that they have won the RoboCup Junior US Rescue B competition and will be travelling to the World Event in June.

This year, Dexter Industries is bringing sustainability to Moonbots by providing 30 finalists with dSolar 4W systems. Teams will power their lunar robots with solar power, just like a real mission to the moon!

We've recently been working on an example to communicate directly to individual XBee radios. The NXTBee allows for mesh-networking and a whole lot of other really awesome capabilities of the XBee radio system. One of those capabilities is to be able to send messages directly on a single radio, and only that radio.

To wrap things up, we're re-hashing the week and posting the code in one zip file in our Downloads section.

The WIFI Sensor for LEGO MINDSTORMS now in LeJOS.

We're finishing up WIFI Week 2 with a small program that lets you download headlines from Google News and display them on the NXT using the Wifi Module.

Another example for the internet of things: thingspeak.

Weather with LEGO™ MINDSTORMS™ NXT Ever walked outside and realized that it's cold and you forgot your jacket? This robot might be able to help.