Saturday, November 12, 2011

NXTs get WiFi

Now Your Lego Creations Can Tweet For You

Have you made something awesome with Lego Mindstorms NXT? A sweet walking robot, perhaps? Wouldn't it be cool if you could control it from work? Or to have it Tweet when something happens? Well, the future is now!

You can now get a Wi-Fi sensor for Lego Mindstorms NXT which means you can control your creation without wires on any end. Dexter Industries, who created the Wi-Fi kit, has already released instructions for how you can get your robot to tweet the temperature, and how you can make it ping a website. Why would you need a robot to ping a website? You wouldn't! Ever! It's pretty much the most boring use for a robot I've ever heard, but that's not the pont.