Turn Your Smartphone Into A Robot
This type of thing could actually spark a robotics revolution. One of the large barrier to entry to robotics is that it is generally built on costly specialty hardware running costly specialty software.<p>Some people have used laptops as 'brains' for robots but they are bulky and often still quite costly.<p>Because of their size, long battery life, gps support, camera, touchscreen, microphone, accelerometer and potential lower price, smartphones are surprisingly well suited as commodity platform for robotics.