Posts tagged with ‘robot’

Posts tagged with ‘robot’

  • Turret Bot using the Thermal Infrared Sensor by Dexter Industries and the dFlex

    Project: Thermal Infrared Turret Bot

    A very cool project from a student at Tufts using the TIR sensor and the dFlex sensor. The Turret project will use a heat sensor and motors to find a person in a room and then shoot them with a rubber band.

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  • dGPS for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT

    GPS Beta’s Are Released

    The GPS makes it to Europe.

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  • GPS Travels in Washington DC with the Mindstorms NXT

    GPS Beta's Are Released

    The GPS makes it to Europe.

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  • dSolar Mindstorms NXT Circles Monument

    Our latest dSolar Mindstorms NXT robot circles Washington Circle. The robot feels its way around the circle using a dFlex sensor.

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  • Blackberry Controlled Robot

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

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  • We Need More Ideas!!

    After this weekend’s disappointing news about Beyond Petroleum’s latest attempts to plug the well, we had some long conversations around the office about what BP is doing wrong.  While we’re amazed at their undersea robots and the things they can (and can’t) do, they obviously fall short in being able to complete the job.

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  • dSwitch with RobotC and Lejos

    In this post, we just want to cover how to use the dSwitch with two languages: RobotC and Lejos.  To use the dSwitch in NXT-G, see our website for the block.

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  • Tired of Turning off the Lights? Saving Electricity with the dSwitch and the TweetaWatt

    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...

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