Control your R/C vehicle from your iPhone
Archive for April, 2010
New UI!
Apr 28th
I’ve just got the UI back from my designer buddy Kofi Brenya absolutely awesome guy, been friends and doing business with him for many years. Any way! Here’s the new UI for WiDrive.
Features include:
- Drag your finger on the right to control acceleration, if you let go it decelerates back to 0, it acts as a dead mans switch
- Double tap to switch to reverse mode
- The iPhone’s battery is represented by the battery indicator on the right
- Same steering controls as before, use the iPhone as a steering wheel
- Of course there’s the sexy push to start button!
- Indicators flash when turning left and right
- If there’s an error, the handbrake warning light comes on
That’s about it really, comments and suggestions would be much appreciated!
What a week!
Apr 22nd
Last Thursday I took this project to my uni’s (Bournemouth) sports hall to take it for a spin. I can say that after 6 months of development, money wasting, blood swear and tears it nearly made me shed a tear to see this fully working with no issues whatsoever (apart from the camera static) in the hands of some of Bournemouth’s most dangerous and incapable drivers. Even worse I’d not been in a sports hall for a while and had forgotten about how polished and pristine the floor normally is.
Any way enough talk here’s the video!
WiDrive Open Beta from Gavin Williams on Vimeo.
If you want to get your hands and try this out, make sure you keep upto date with our Bournemouth University Graduation show taking place at the end of May this year! @gotoandplay2010
I wanna try and get this on the front page of Digg so… DON’T FORGET TO DIGG THIS POST! 
