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So check this, I came across this site called Phidgets. And what they sell are these little toys you plug into your computer through usb and can interface with using alot of common programming languages. So I was like niiice, until I saw some examples and I was like niiiiiiiiiiiice. Like this one. This guy took a tablet PC with wifi, strapped it on to a remote control truck, setup a web cam on the front of it and activated Adobe Flash’s web cam api so he could capture that web cam data over at his computer in the office. Next he can control the car from his desk using flash communication server back to the flash movie playing on the car and the flash movie tells the car where to go using the Phidget motor controller and Actionscript.

And there are all kinds of cool projects people have been working on. Like they have and RFID kit that includes a sensor and a key chain. And this one project has a guy who has built software that allows you to scan your rfid key chain over the rfid scanner on the computer when you visit a password protected website or want to turn your computer back on from sleep. GENIUS!!