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iPhone to Control R/C Car (Video)

September 5, 2008 10 Comments

iPhone to Control R/C Car (Video)

Two guys from the Czech Republic, 18 year old Josef Průša and his brother, has come up with a cool way to control an R/C car using the iPhone and its built-in accelerometer.

It has five buttons, four of them you can use for traditional driving and when you press the last one, it unlocks the accelerometer control in the same way as in many driving games available on AppStore.

Here’s a video showing the iPhone-controlled car in action:

Read more about the iPhone R/C Car Project at the DJ Josef Průša blog.

(The iPhone Blog via Apple iPhone Apps)

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10 Responses to “iPhone to Control R/C Car (Video)”

  1. David Freitag the computer doc Reply September 6, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    How did they get the iPhone to talk to the car? Does iPhone have some output transmitting specification?

  2. Robert Birming Reply September 8, 2008 at 1:49 am

    Here’s the info from the site:
    iPhone (OSCemote) → WiFi → PC → Max/Msp → Serial port → Arduino → Original controller.

  3. Aon Reply September 9, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    This is really cool app for iPhone, i like their idea.
    I need this app for play my R/C car with iPhone too ;)

  4. Robert Birming Reply September 10, 2008 at 1:17 am

    I’d like an iPhone app like this for my R/C helicopter. :)

    Thanks for stopping by, Aon!

  5. Dshot Reply September 13, 2008 at 2:25 am

    That’s pretty cool!! :)

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