New blog post: It’s here: Dexter Industries 6-DOF IMU http://t.co/Ec5dsJEp

Dexter Industries have started selling their new Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) that has both a gyroscope and an accelerometer. Gyroscope The gyro has 3 ranges, 250, 500 and 2000 degrees per second with 1/128, 1/64 and 1/16 degree accuracy respectively.  It can measure the rate of turn on all three axes.  The gyro also has a temperature sensor that is ...

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hacking away at the Dexter Industries IMU driver. Starting to get there.

Dexter Industries are currently developing a great new sensor, a proper 6 Degree of Freedom (DOF) Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) for the NXT. It consists of two sensors on a single board; a 3-D gyroscope and a 3-D accelerometer. Both sensors can measure their respective values on the X, Y and Z axes. The sensor, like many of the other ...

After a long wait, thanks to the speediness of the USPS (their delivery status page is beyond useless), my two Dexter Industries NXTBee sensors finally arrived!  These little puppies will allow me to communicate between up to 16 NXTs at about 115Kb/s.  Pretty sweet, I’d say.  They leverage the NXT’s underutilised port 4’s ability to talk RS485 to achieve these ...

Dexter Industries hasn’t been sitting still in the past few weeks; they’ve been busy developing a very cool new sensor. It’s an NXT sensor that leverages the XBee as a means of communication. No longer will you be limited to slow, one-way Bluetooth connections between just your master and 3 slaves.  With XBee you have can have up to 16 ...

Something that’s been brewing in the labs of Dexter Industries is sitting on my desk as I type this.  It’s an NXT compatible GPS sensor.  As you can see, it’s very compact.  It’s still a prototype and chances are the final version will probably use more surface mounted components to make it smaller, still. The info on the chips and ...

Today my package from Dexter Industries was delivered.  I had been looking forward to its impending arrival for a couple of days now.  Dexter Industries are a relatively new player in the NXT sensor field.  Last year they launched their dSwitch, a sensor that allows you to control a mains powered appliance with your NXT. They’ve expanded their range of ...