Post Tagged with: "sensor"

  • Released: Dexter Industries WiFi Sensor

    Released: Dexter Industries WiFi Sensor

    Sensors November 4, 2011 17:56 3 comments

    With a gestation period of a baby elephant but with the grace of a cheetah, Dexter Industries are proud to present their latest offering: the WiFi Sensor. You may remember me building a web server a while back that allowed you to fiddle with a motor over the Internet, now [...]

     
  • HiTechnic SuperPro: What product to get?

    HiTechnic SuperPro: What product to get?

    Sensors November 1, 2011 08:08 no comments

    If you’re keen to get started with the new HiTechnic SuperPro you may be a little confused as to which kit to get.  It comes in three product versions and depending on your skill or arsenal of electronic components, you can now pick the one that suits your needs best.  [...]

     
  • Mindsensors TouchPanel: Noise-a-Tron

    Mindsensors TouchPanel: Noise-a-Tron

    Experiments October 29, 2011 12:40 4 comments

    This is possibly the most annoying musical instrument in the world. My dogs weren’t all that impressed with it either.  It’s like the Theremin from hell without any of the redeeming features.  It is to music as ketchup is to pasta sauce. So it is not without some pride that [...]

     
  • Additional info on HiTechnic SuperPro Board

    Additional info on HiTechnic SuperPro Board

    Sensors October 28, 2011 17:17 4 comments

    John Hansen has written a very nice article on the new HiTechnic SuperPro board over on the Mindboards blog. He’s been very busy creating a new compiler for this board to allow you to write custom program in BrixCC to upload to this board.  There is a lot of information [...]

     
  • New from HiTechnic: NXT SuperPro Prototype Board

    New from HiTechnic: NXT SuperPro Prototype Board

    Sensors October 27, 2011 21:28 3 comments

    HiTechnic have released their latest creation: the NXT SuperPro Prototype Board.  It’s a like the old Prototype Board (which seems to be gone from the website now) only much, much more advanced.  You can actually hook this thing up to your USB port and reprogram it to do what you [...]

     
  • Mystery Sensor…

    Mystery Sensor…

    Sensors October 27, 2011 12:30 no comments

    I’ve been sent a new sensor by a company that is looking to enter the NXT sensor market.  I am not going to tell you what the sensor is but some of my readers already know as they’ve been sent one, too.  All will be revealed soon… Comments have been [...]

     
  • Released: ROBOTC Driver Suite V2.3

    Released: ROBOTC Driver Suite V2.3

    ROBOTC Driver Suite October 16, 2011 10:22 2 comments

    Some boneheaded bugs fixed and a new driver Thanks to some very astute users of my suite, I have fixed a couple of stupid bugs in my IMU driver (this seems to be a recurring theme, it seems). A new sensor driver has also been added, this one was not [...]

     
  • First Look: Mindsensors TouchPanel Sensor

    First Look: Mindsensors TouchPanel Sensor

    Sensors October 11, 2011 21:47 4 comments

    The mailman brought me a package from Mindsensors today!  The TouchPanel sensor is here and it looks great.  I’ve taken some quick pictures so you can get an idea of what it looks like. Front view, the screen is slightly less bright when viewed straight on but doesn’t seem affected [...]

     
  • Released: ROBOTC Driver Suite V2.2

    Released: ROBOTC Driver Suite V2.2

    ROBOTC Driver Suite October 8, 2011 20:58 10 comments

    Minor fixes, enhancements and cleanups This release has a couple of small fixes and also gets rid of a couple of really bone-headed bugs in the Dexter Industry IMU sensor driver. The sensor driver has been tested with a real segway by Laurens Valk, check out the video below: The [...]

     
  • Released: ROBOTC Driver Suite V2.1

    Released: ROBOTC Driver Suite V2.1

    ROBOTC Driver Suite September 10, 2011 19:25 no comments

    Nothing earth shattering Not as many new features or bug fixes as the last one but some nice little things none the less. Where can I download it? You can get it at the usual place: [LINK]. Changelog You can now calibrate light sensors on a per-port basis. It also [...]