Cellular data controlled robot

Posted Feb 2nd 2008 10:12PM by Will O'Brien
Filed under: robots hacks

[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.

Reader Comments

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1. Gotta love the Legos. Nice use of last year's cell phone, too.

Posted at 6:38AM on Feb 3rd 2008 by PocketBrain

2. sweet

Posted at 5:36PM on Feb 3rd 2008 by jetblack

3. Inspiring...makes me wanna go out and build one just to mess around with. Any plans for AI?

Posted at 7:20PM on Feb 3rd 2008 by kldsp

4. 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.

Posted at 8:59AM on Feb 4th 2008 by detro

5. 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

Posted at 1:26PM on Feb 8th 2008 by martin

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