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iPhone Playing mame4iphone with a WiiMote over BlueTooth
Forget about using the touch screen or accelerometers that are built into your iPhone. Instead why not use a Wiimote!
iPhone displays Wiimote Position
Posted by Tammy on Aug 11, 2009 in Camera Hack, DIY iPhone Hack, Display, Game Hack, Interface Hack, Remote Control, Video, iPhone Case Hack, iPhone Hack This is an impressive example of what some creative programming can be done with the iPhone.
“The video first shows the iPhone’s AirPlane mode activated before starting an OpenGL-ES Demo. In the demo, the orientation of the virtual WiiMote is controlled by a physical WiiMote over a Bluetooth connection.”
iPhone controlled LEGO Robot
This robot uses the simple change of brightness of a single area of a screen that is being monitored by a NXT LEGO sensor to communicate the intended travel direction.
“This robot demonstrates iPhone to Lego Robotics communication via the Safari web browser and the Lego NXT Light Sensor. To build this, you’ll need a laptop, two iPhones, and a Lego NXT Robotics Kit. First, build your robot. Second write some Java LeJOS Robot code. Third write some Google Web Toolkit web application code. Fourth, plug in your iPhone into the robot, and use either a browser or another iPhone to drive the Lego Robot!”
iPhone Controlled R2D2 Robot
Looks like the iPhone makes for a great R2D2 robot controller. It’s cool to see the new iPhone technology interface and control a robot that we remember from our past. Nice to see the endeavor pay off with the robots first steps. 
“I found a way to remote control my R2D2 with an iPhone. In the videos I demonstrate controlling a servo and the dome motor using an iPhone using the accelerometer (tilting the iPhone controls it) and using a slider control on the touch screen. Other touch screen controls are possible too such as rotary controls, buttons, XY controls, and multitouch as well as gestures. I should be able to interface with my J.E.D.I display as well and type in text messages in the iPhone that will scroll across the front or rear logic displays.”
iPhone Controlled Mazda RX-8
Talk about a wired car and guess what controls the works? You got it, an iPhone!
“Quick demo of accessing a web server linked to an Arduino in my RX-8 from an iPod Touch so it can be started, stopped, locked/unlocked, current location shown on Google Maps, and engine parameters displayed.”
