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Nokia N900 Controls LEGO NXT Robot via Twitter

Thinking out of the box, some researchers or more-like called "hackers" just can't get enough of their Nokia N900 cell phones.

But this is something that I would also perhaps do with my spare time, tweaking my own cell phone to make it useful for some other controls.

Just like this technology here. A LEGO NXT Robot is being controlled by a hacked Nokia N900 cell phone. How cool is that?!

What you will do is:

First, create or login to your Twitter account;

Send a command to the robot via this tweet message preceded by “@N900Niko”: move forward, move backward, turn right, turn left, turn around, photo;

Your tweet will be received and translated by your "hacked" N900 cellphone as a command for your LEGO NXT Robot to perform;

The robot will then interpret the message to do movements;

Watch how the NXT robot move with your succeeding tweet commands.

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