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Mindsensors Digital Pneumatic Pressure Sensor (PPS58-Nx)

January 27, 2012 18:48 - Sensors

Mindsensors have made a new pressure sensor and it’s really sweet. It uses their new compact sensor housing and it’s very slick and robust looking. Rather than calling it the PPS v3, they gave it the uebercatchy name PPS58-Nx. So [...]
Teleop Catalyst for ROBOTC

January 16, 2012 23:06 - ROBOTC

Titus Woo posted on the ROBOTC forums about a really cool new program he’d written to make it easier for FTC teams to make a teleop program for their robot. I’ve never done FTC but I maintain the ROBOTC forums [...]
HiTechnic SuperPro Prototype Sensor

December 13, 2011 09:53 - Sensors

I received my HiTechnic SuperPro Prototype Sensor in the post yesterday and it’s epic. It’s epic for a number of reasons: It has more inputs and outputs than you can shake a stick at, both analogue and digital. It can [...]
Released: ROBOTC Driver Suite V2.4

December 7, 2011 22:45 - ROBOTC Driver Suite

More 3rd party 3rd party drivers Does a 3rd party 3rd party driver make it a 4th party? I’m not sure, you decide. In any case, my good man Gus at HiTechnic has provided a very nice driver for the [...]
Great PID video

December 6, 2011 09:15 - Programming

Ivan Seidel from Brazil made a really great video to explain how PID control works. The video is in Portuguese but if you click on the “CC” (closed caption) button at the bottom, you’ll get English subtitles! Go watch it, [...]
We’we in fow a Tweet!

October 25, 2011 19:06 - Sensors

Dexter Industries have used their WiFi sensor to send a Tweet straight from the NXT over WiFi! It uses the Arduino Tweet Library relaying site to send them which is really, really cool! I am so going to rebuild TwitterTattle [...]