Answers.Body: <p>I haven't come across any existing projects like this yet, but there is nothing stopping you from doing this yourself. I would suggest writing an app for your phone in Obj-C and just remote controlling the EV3 via bluetooth.</p>
  
  <p>The bluetooth communication uses the RFCOMM profile. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18677386/bluetooth-connection-to-lego-mindstorms-ev3-brick-from-ios-app">This post</a> might give you some hints on getting the bluetooth connection.</p>
  
  <p>You can find the EV3 communication protocol specifications in the hardware developers kit that is linked in <a href="http://botbench.com/blog/2014/02/19/ev3-build-your-own-block-and-hdksdk-docs-available/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this blog post</a>.</p>
  
  <p>Hopefully this is is enough to get you started.</p>
  
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Body: <p>As EV3 has Bluetooth builtin as well as iPhone too, is there a way to connect them somehow so that iPhone could send data from the camera via Bluetooth to an EV3 brick?</p>
  
  <p>As a more general question, can I make iPhone send/receive data to/from the brick via Bluetooth, e.g. commands, with Objective C or other ways?</p>
  
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Title: Use iPhone camera as an input sensor for EV3
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ThreadText: # Use iPhone camera as an input sensor for EV3
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-03-03)
  
  As EV3 has Bluetooth builtin as well as iPhone too, is there a way to connect them somehow so that iPhone could send data from the camera via Bluetooth to an EV3 brick?
  
  As a more general question, can I make iPhone send/receive data to/from the brick via Bluetooth, e.g. commands, with Objective C or other ways?
  
  **Tags:** ev3, bluetooth, ios
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-03-04. Score: 1
  
  I haven't come across any existing projects like this yet, but there is nothing stopping you from doing this yourself. I would suggest writing an app for your phone in Obj-C and just remote controlling the EV3 via bluetooth.
  
  The bluetooth communication uses the RFCOMM profile. [This post](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18677386/bluetooth-connection-to-lego-mindstorms-ev3-brick-from-ios-app) might give you some hints on getting the bluetooth connection.
  
  You can find the EV3 communication protocol specifications in the hardware developers kit that is linked in [this blog post](http://botbench.com/blog/2014/02/19/ev3-build-your-own-block-and-hdksdk-docs-available/).
  
  Hopefully this is is enough to get you started.
  
  
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