This is the “Dial Remote Control” LEGO Mindstorms NXT project from www.nxtprograms.com. See free building instructions and downloadable programs at http://www.nxtprograms.com/dial_remote/index.html

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In this video we show how to use the gravity sensor of a Apple MacBook Pro in order to remote control a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot. They connect via bluetooth, and the Interactive Geometry Software Cinderella.2 is used as controlling software. It reads the data from the gravity sensor of the MacBook, processes it and then controls the motors of the NXT robot accordingly.

More info about Cinderella at http://cinderella.de, contact: kortenkamp@cinderella.de. Recorded at the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany.

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Lego has announced it’s updating its Lego Mindstorms kit with an updated and some would say simplified version of the hugely successful range.

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