Two great tastes that taste great together? This is an cool, and really not that difficult, hack. Simple, but elegant, like most Apple products! The Mindstorms light sensor detects variations on the iPhone screen, which is being controlled wirelessly from a computer keyboard. Cake and pie! (easy as cake, simple as pie – what, no one’s ever read Dean Koontz?)
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