Inexpensive Solar Power Comes to Lego Mindstorms NXT [Solar]

Oct 17th 2010
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For $90 Dexter Industries will sell you a solar panel that offers enough juice to power an NXT control brick and one servo. Surely, Lego Mindstorms Mars missions aren’t far behind.

The 9V/250mA panel seems to sync up together with your Mindstorms kit easily enough, and in order for you expand beyond that the company also offers a host of NXT-compatible capacitor packs, battery packs and a connector that lets builders daisy chain up to 3 panels on a single build.

NASA’s gone commercial at the present time, so get cracking. [ Dexter Industries via MAKE ]

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