Control Your RC Model With Your iPhone!
Posted on July 5, 2010 by aaronredbaron
With the iPhone’s built in accelerometers, its capable of knowing the attitude of the device. Creative software developers have taken this ability and turned it into a method for controlling an RC model! Using the audio jack on the iPhone like a buddy cord connection, this setup still uses a conventional RC transmitter (or a custom enclosure for a transmitter module) to send control signals to the model. Using the iPhone as a gimbal, all you have to do is tilt the phone in the desired direction of control. Throttle and rudder are controlled with a sliding touch screen button on the screen. If you have a stable airplane, a radio with a buddy cord and iPhone, you could put this together yourself without too much trouble!
