Control your R/C vehicle from your iPhone
What a week!
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! 
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New UI!
about 3 years ago - 4 comments
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
And just like that… the jitter’s gone!
about 3 years ago - 8 comments
I’ve made a few modifications to my Arduino sketch to keep it small… and I’m happy with it! I’ve learnt that the smaller the footprint on a device with limited memory the faster it can process things. So I’ve gone from an Arduino Sketch of roughly 100 lines of code… to something so slim and
New Board, New Ideas
about 3 years ago - No comments
I know I’ve been away for a while but this is why… On the left you can see the old Arduino and on the right you can see the new streamlined Black Widow from Async Labs, which is just a modified Arduino with WiFi built into it. I’ve also decided to go down the sockets
Driving over the internet…
about 3 years ago - 2 comments
A friend of mine (Tom) wanted to drive the car over the net, thought I’d give it a go as I haven’t even tried it yet. I’ve basically opened up my network so Tom has direct access to the car from a few URL’s, when he clicks on the URL’s I’m just messaging him telling
How Annoying!
about 3 years ago - No comments
Alright, so I’ve been working on the iPhone app today and thought I’d start with something simple, you know, “press button car go forward” kind of thing child’s play… one might think. Well I was wrong! Unfortunately from my testing the WiShield can only handle 1 http request per second, in laymen’s terms think of
That’s one sexy project box…
about 3 years ago - No comments
Alright… so I went out to Maplin today and thought I’d splash out a bit and get a sexy project box, dremel grinder and some accessories… the result of this… that bad boy car’s completely wire free! Pictures below! Share and Enjoy:
It’s 1:47…
about 3 years ago - No comments
It’s 1:47 in the morning, my eyes hurt and I’ve voluntarily been at it all day messing around with this WiShield… I can tell you that it’s finally paid off! I’ve managed to get the WiShield to give an XML response based on a URL passed to it… Basically creating a REST webservice on the
The WiShield has arrived…
about 3 years ago - 3 comments
Wi-Fi enabling the Arduino from a hacked LaFonera+ router has proved tedious and annoying at best. I wouldn’t recommend it to any one unless you’re willing to deal with the agro of having to spend vast amounts of time flashing it and rebooting it every time a serial connection to the Arduino board drops. Luckily
We Have Comms!
about 3 years ago - No comments
I’ve finally managed to flash my LaFonera+ through serial with DD-WRT, so I can send commands through SSH wirelessly to my Arduino board to control the servo’s. I’ve also managed to power my LaFonera+ from the Arduino. I haven’t connected up the TX for now because I have no intention of letting the arduino talk
about 3 years ago
Sweet project! I didn’t see too much info on the camera aspect. It’s an ethernet camera? I’m assuming you have it connected to the wifi shield some how, but what happens on the receiver end?
about 3 years ago
Dude: I was excited about digging this, until I watched the video. You REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY need to remix it with footage of what the display looks like, both from the iPhone (without the headset) and a few seconds with camera pointing in the headset.
Without that, it’s just some people driving a car in a gym. It could be so much more!
about 3 years ago
I know, it’s a bit of a shame we only had an hour in the sports hall otherwise I would have set things up a little differently, some of the guys have photos/videos from the test, I’ll try and get them from them!