Jordan Snyder turned more than a few heads at 360Flex when she demoed a lego Mindstorm robot controlled through an AIR interface. Adam Flater took some videos of the 'bot (since named "Nathan") cruising around the eBay campus. Cool stuff, to say the least.

The AIR application connects to a Java backend that controls the robot through Mindstorm's public Java api, and Java and AIR are then glued together through an open source technology called Merapi. Merapi is an open-source project for connecting AIR and Java run by Adam Flater, and is sure to have an exciting future.

Jordan Snyder has a long history of tinkering with hardware and is especially interested in the way that software interfaces become tangible and practical when applied to real, physical devices. Watch her blog for updates on all the cool projects Jordan is involved in.

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