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Smartphones are great remotes. Check out this lightweight Bluetooth enabled novelty lamp mod by Bitartist. Tricked out with a AVRtiny2313 and Bluetooth module, you can turn the lamp on and off via a mobile app. It will also perform double duty by notifying you of incoming calls.
Check out this Bluetooth NES controller Sk3tch pieced together from parts and an Arduino with a blueSMIRF Bluetooth module.
Micah Dowty has been doing some really impressive work with the propeller microcontroller.
I then wrote a spiffy little Android app that pairs up to the BlueSMiRF, reads the state dumped from the Arduino every 3 seconds, and then makes a pretty little Android UI. It shows me a Sun, Moon, or Clock depending on which state the Arduino is in.
YouTube user gloomyandy demonstrates how to stream 8-bit audio through a NXT brick’s crappy speakers via Bluetooth and USB. The trick is to use leJOS, Java-based replacement firmware for the brick. [via The NXT Step] More: NXC: C Language for Mindstorms NXT LEGO NXT walker turns from both ends LEGO Mindstorms NXT and open source […]
SQNewton didn’t just crack open a bluetooth headset and cram it into a cool retro handset casing; he developed his own hardware to produce a fully-functional, self-contained phone that uses the Ericofon’s original rotary dial, gives dial and busy tones, mimics the original Ericofon ringer, and has voice-recognition dialing to top it off. [via Hack a Day]
