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Card 118 of 9992026-08-31 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-08-31

BlueMote turns phones into robot-driving gamepads

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A Bluetooth Low Energy controller for robots built with SPIKE, MINDSTORMS, ESP32, micro:bit, OpenMV, and other compatible hardware.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-31 issue.

Field notes

BlueMote separates control and video transport: BLE carries the small robot-control packets while an MJPEG feed can sit behind the landscape gamepad over Wi-Fi. The documentation names specific integration points, including btbricks RCReceiver, a micro:bit V2 MakeCode extension, LMS-ESP32 MicroPython firmware, Pybricks, and OpenMV. The page also records a concrete hardware limitation: micro:bit V1 does not have enough memory for BLE.

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