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We are now a Mindsensors Authorized Dealer!

Published on March 1, 2010 By admin

We are now an authorized seller of the full line of Mindsensors products! Expand your LEGO™ Mindstorms™ robots with some of the best electronics on the market today! All our Mindsensors’ products are brand new and fully warranted through Mindsensors. If you are building the next big destructo-bot or even something more modest like a [...]

A Comparison of the LEGO and HiTechnic Color Sensors

Published on November 14, 2009 By admin

Philohome has published an excellent comparison of the HiTechnic and LEGO Color Sensor (currently only available with the Mindstorms 2.0 Kit. My conclusion: If you do any serious playing with contraptions using the NXT, you’ll want one of each.

Weather Station Project

Published on January 5, 2008 By admin

I’ve decided it would be fun to build a homebrew weather station. I purchased a Lantronix Matchport Kit a few months ago from GridConnect. My original idea for an entry in the Lantronix Wireless Design Contest was a robotic watchdog that would wander around the house and record suspicious activity to a PC connected through [...]

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