good job. would never have thought about that, even tho i just read of a czech guy doing the very same thing with a r/c car whilst carrying the (minimized) router in a backpack.

id love to understand how ud make a Cat5E work on a servo but i dont.

the idea leading me here was actually to fix a 2.4 Ghz Cmos cam on one of my helis – and since i didnt wanna buy a video receiver in addition to that – use the iphone asa receiver…

guess even in that case id always need a router.

maybe u can implement that in a 2.0 version of your software in case u ever publish it (plz do :p)

or maybe ill do it – anyways, thnx for all the nerdy ideas and hopefully many, many more

greetz

Congrats for this concept.

How cand i reach you ?

I want to talk with you about iPhone development and some other stuff.

Best regards

I’m glad you found my site. I have an unfortunate history with radio control blimps… http://www.myauntishot.com/2007/funny/the-rise-and-fall-of-a-giant-chalupa

=)

Josh

We fly exterior and interior R/C blimps in Mexico, and we had the idea to control them using an phone, I looked around and found your helicopter project, which is awesome. I would like to talk to you about our project if you are interested.

Thanks

Great Job!!
There is also a kit for doing so, it is a PCTx which can be used for application with PC computer, and write some application to send PPM signal to your transmitter and then control the RC heli.
To have the same result with your work, I would like to use gyro/accerometer Android applicaton on my HTC phone via Wifi, and talk to my PCTx application running in my NB to control the heli.

But how do you do you part in sending the signal to RC?

Thanks

Thanks for your comment. It’s clear you’re not very knowledgeable about R/C.

Thanks!

Josh

Just to clear this up – this is so obviously a fake. “…and the next think you know I have a servo with a Cat5E plug on the end of it.” – yeh, course you did mate! The hardware in the router is simply not able to output individual PWM signals to each port in order to control servos.

As a project, this is entirely possible by the way, but there’s a few key things missing from this write up which if you’d really done it you’d not miss – some basic understanding of the the connection to the servos in particular. The hardware in a router can’t be used to send PWM without some additional hardware. Also, what happened to control of the rudder?

And if anyone still thinks this is real – take a close look at the vids opening testing (frame by frame if you need to) – the tilting of the phone isn’t consistent with the controls on the heli – even if you take a little delay into account. The guy obviously has his other hand, conveniently out of shot, on the helis transmitter.

Oh, and also, watch the guy talking about it – it doesn’t take a psychologist to see signs of dishonesty whilst he’t talking about the technical aspects. For example, touch of the collar and eye movement when talking about ‘his’ modded Linux firmware.

Why fake this??? It’s obvious people would believe it – it seems plausible, and without understanding of the electronics/networking there’s no reason to think it’s not possible. Was your aim to have an easy go at fooling a few people, or to try and get credit for doing something you obviously don’t have the knowledge and understanding to actually implement?

Either way – what’s the point???