Tag archive for "LEGO"
A trio of developers have created a playful custom Android ROM that’s based on the world of LEGO. Beezy, KSmith and Nick7 worked up the ROM for the Sprint Optimus S and have given the user the modular ability to choose any tweaks and theme edits they want. And the beauty is, there’s no tedious [...]
We love LEGO and we love Android, and it seems there’s plenty of love between the two companies as well. LEGO has just launched MINDroid for Android, a remote control app allowing users to operate their Mindstorm NXT robots from their smartphone. “The MINDdroid app is a remote-control application that allows you to create a [...]
Things like this are just totally cool. Grant Skinner has figured out a way to allow his Nexus One to be used as a controller for these little race cars. By tilting the phone, the accelerometer in the phone is used to make the car accelerate at a predetermined speed. If you tilt it just [...]
It’s safe to say that we can file this under the totally cool category of robots. This little invention uses a Droid to solve a Rubik’s Cube. We’ve all tried to solve this thing and one point or another in our life and those of us that didn’t move the colored stickers around probably failed. [...]
The Japanese PLEN robot – that used an Android smartphone as its remote – is great, but at $3,000 it’s a little too expensive for the casual hobbyist. Instead, how about using some more affordable LEGO Mindstorms kit; that’s what the Enea Android team have done, taking advantage of the Mindstorms’ integrated Bluetooth to remotely [...]
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