It was a rainy day and we were brainstorming.  So we built this hand cranked shuttle.  Others have built a much more complex version before.  But it’s simple enough, and it helps us think.  Sort of like a stress ball. Some pictures are below in case you need to think too.

Very, very cool . . . control your robot with a Blackberry!

The dSolar goes to Washington powered only by solar panels.

Lego-X has a great blog post about the soon-to-be-released dPressure Sensor.  Check out his blog post about the pressure sensor.

This week, we wanted to give everyone a small hint about what’s coming soon from Dexter Industries.  We’ve been working for the past month on a solar power system for the Mindstorms NXT system.  That’s right, soon you’ll be able to power Lego Mindstorms robots with nothing but the sun. Some pictures and a video of what we’ve been...

Burning on the back of our minds one morning was just how our thermometers would perform with different lengths of sensor chord.  The new Lego thermometer is limited, we’re told, by its IIC chords.  But because our thermometer line is analog, the sensor should be able to reach much further.  To test this, we took three open thermometers with...

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 . . .

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