LEGO Powered Up controlling Power Functions through IR

New LEGO Powered Up App () announced the ability to control Power Functions devices. LEGO didn’t say how but we have found out: two new blocks allow using the Color Sensor as an IR emitter (something already shown by PyBricks project and others) using the Simple Output Mode of the PF IR specs: This is just a proof of concept. For proper use, the sliders need some math correction (0 to 100 needs to be converted to 0 to 7 and -100 to -1 needs to be