Dexter Industries have unleashed another sensor into the wild, the dLight. I sort of ran my mouth a little, when I released my previous version of the Driver Suite by mentioning it then. However, it’s out now and available from the Dexter Industries website. So what exactly is the dLight? [...]
Now that both HiTechnic and Mindsensors have a SensorMUX, it may be a good opportunity to highlight some of the differences between the two. The HiTechnic SensorMUX This one has been around for a few years now and is well liked with FTC teams everywhere. It allows you hook up [...]
Mindsensors are about to release a Sensor MUX of their own! This one works very differently in that instead of doing the polling of the attached sensors for you, it allows itself to become a channel to said sensor. So, in essence, you send it a command, like “give me [...]
I wanted to come up with a fun project for the new Mindsensors GlideWheel-AS Angle Sensor. I wracked my brain as to what I could make that would be fun and not something obvious. Maybe it was my man-flu/Ebola induced fever, but I came up with an idea: a weighing [...]
Hello tinkerers, look at your adapter, now back to mine, now back at your adapter, now back to mine. Sadly, it’s not like mine, but if you headed over to Dexter Industries and bought one, it could look like this one. Anything is possible when you can quickly disable [...]
I am sure you’ve seen the pictures of the Wii Nunchucks attached to the NXT before on the Internet. However, they either required a very specific Nunchuck to be used or some modifications on the device itself. Dexter Industries, together with Matthew Richardson have come up with a great new [...]
If to be able to sense the Force you want your robot, an excellent choice this HiTechnic Force Sensor is. Hmmmmm. .. Due to come out in early October, this little bad boy can measure the amount of force applied to an axle that presses into the axle receptacle (image [...]
Mindsensors is about to release a cool new sensor with an array of 8 light detectors: the Light Sensor Array. Sound familiar? Well, it should. This is quite similar to their LineLeader sensor, with one major difference; there is no built-in PID regulator. Why? Simple, some robotics competitions deemed the [...]
HiTechnic told me they were working on this little gem a while back but it’s finally here! The HiTechnic MiniScope! This is so cool it’s not even funny! It’s very small and can actually be plugged right into a bread board! That’s very useful if you want to combine it [...]
It’s been a while since I last did an “exposed” article, where I take apart a sensor and take intimate pictures of its insides. The HiTechnic Passive Infra Red (PIR) is a great one though. It was also one of the most tricky ones to photograph and put back together. [...]
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