Controlling a Radio Control Helicopter with an iPhone
Submitted by Uzair on Monday, 4 May 2009
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What can you possibly do with an iPhone? Play games, surf the internet, listen to music, take photos and of course make phone calls. But it is just amazing to see what Joshua Ziering has used iPhone for. He took an iPhone, a radio-controlled helicopter, a Wi-Fi router and mixed it up with the iPhone’s accelerometer and touch interface to built a R/C helicopter controller. He made a custom software for “flight interface” on the iPhone. Watch the video below to see the iPhone controlled R/C helicopter in action.


I GOD IN TRUST
You’re a superstar! Great project, dude.
Go work for Textron.
i am just absolutley nuts about helicopted and flying them, i would like to inquire when this application would be avalible to the general public?
Sincerly,
Helicopter Bill
Now stick a camera on that bad boy so you get a pilots view while flying and you’re laughing all the way to the bank!
you’re really cute
fake …
as a helicopter hobbyist, I can tell you this program is missing lots of things, where are the controls for rudder and gaz … also how is he mixing the gaz curve and pitch on his iPhone … controlling a rc helicopter is much more complicate than controlling the swashplate (but this is a good idea)
this helicopter is expensive and not the best to test this program, also for a first fly, the pilot wouldn’t have missed to use a training landing kit which cost less than 10$ …
I bet there is someone with the transmitter behind …
Wow, that is like major cool dude!
RT
Glad everyone enjoyed my work.
The guy is really cute… =]
Hi Josh,
this is an awesome project.keep it up the good work.
thanks,
Kamlesh
FAKE!
As someone that builds UAV’s im saying this.
The whole part about the servos, IF hes controlling them via a pwm signal as claimed there would be no control line, ie they would not return to center also the resolution would be next to usless.
Theres no mixing or throttle control, with the additional weight (of the “router”) this would be essential just to get off the ground.
Whilst this is a great idea the iphone is a limited platform for a project like this, a coaxial yeah sure but a rex-450 your joking.
If this guy was a real pro, hes not anymore no one’s going to sponsor a bull$hit artist like that, thats the real lesson to learn here.
I wish I was a smart white guy with loads of time
I wish I was a smart white guy with loads of time
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[...] Eventually came the mobile phone, now with Jetsons-like features, that fits in my pocket. The cost of sending a message or talking to someone far away is a very, very, very small fraction of what it ever has been before, throughout the history of electric communication briefly described above. The device itself can also play games, track your every movement and give me directions to get where I want to go, play music, and operate toy helicopters. [...]
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