This week we got back to our hacking spree: we made an Arduino and LEGO MINDSTORMS talk.  This weeks example gets the Arduino and the NXT

We recently discovered this fantastic video of a LEGO MINDSTORMS creation: The Flying Fortress LEGO Blimp.  The project is a fantastic two-ballooned flying blimp made of LEGOs and controlled with a pair of NXTBees.

A quick update on RobotC 3.5 and the NXTBee.

Xander does some really fantastic work. We have him to thank for the fantastic integration that Dexter Industries sensors enjoy in the RobotC environment.

Have you ever wanted to control your robot with your iPhone, iPad, or MacBook?

Ever wanted to control a robot with your web browser?  Dexter Industries has written an example and library to help you do that.  Now you can communicate very quickly, with a webpage, from anywhere in the world.  The new example software allows a user to dynamically control the robot from a webpage from a browser on a laptop, computer,...

Imagine . . . controlling your LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot from everywhere in the world from any web-enabled device: PC, Macbook, laptop, Android smartphone, iPhone, or iPad. Finally . . . you can! Websockets are a way to communicate with webpages that allow you to send data back and forth to a server or another web-enabled device.  A lot of...

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.

Now one of our favorite software systems, RobotC, is combined with one of our favorite hardware systems, Arduino.

Improvements