LEGO tank with PicAxe controller

TomTheGeek has come up with a LEGO tank alongside a PicAxe controller, and the technical nitty gritty is described in further detail as below.

Locomotion is supplied by a Lego Power Function motor controller. He cut an LPF extension wire in half so that he could patch into the PWM signals without altering the motors themselves. You can make out the control circuitry and a small breadboard in the tank’s turret. TomTheGeek added a laser pointer to the tip of the barrel but we’d like to see an IR LED. The tank is controlled by a infrared remote control and adding TV-b-gone functionality to the toy would create something of a Rube Goldberg feature for turning off the tube. But alas, there’s no programming space left for that as the PicAxe 08M is limited to 256 bytes.

Guess there is virtually no limit to what LEGO can do, apart from your imagination, eh?