[Jatinderjit] sent along the latest in LEGO robotics. The cell phone controlled robot. It’s based on a LEGO Excavator kit with a few spare parts via ebay. The controller is a Nokia phone running a small webserver. A PIC 24F microcontroller runs the show as it receives commands via the phones IR interface. The phone uploads images from the on-board camera as fast as it can update it. Think of it as a poor mans mars earth rover.
FYI, This puppy made engadget while I was working it over, so the site might get a bit overloaded in the near future.
Gotta love the Legos. Nice use of last year’s cell phone, too.
sweet
Inspiring…makes me wanna go out and build one just to mess around with. Any plans for AI?
say goodbye to suicide bombers, now all they need is some lego excavator sets and some cheap nokias to deliver bombs in a way thats fun for the kids, it certainly would be a hit with the 12 yr old jihad’i.
does anyone know how he got the infrared working on the j2me phone.was on his site but could not find out anything about that.
thanks
I am interested in using the cell phone in the other direction – e.g. interfacing an Arduino to a cell phone to make it dial out and send some data remotely. Like presence indicator, temp, power loss, etc. Use a cheap phone and just use DTMF for data as a first shot. Searched Google and can’t find anything like this.
Thanks,
Rick