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.

The GPS makes it to Europe.

The GPS makes it to Europe.

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

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

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.

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.

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...