iPhone Controlled RC Car using an Arduino

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Here is another cool iPhone projects that controls a RC car. Is the iPhone the new Swiss Army knife of portable electronics?

"Controlling is very easy with the iPhone 3G. It has five buttons, four of them you can use for traditional „driving“ and when you press the last one, it unlocks the accelerometer control in the same way as in many driving games available on AppStore. Realization of this project did not take a long time, only one afternoon. Technically it is realized in a hell-bent way, but obviously it’s functional. Schematically: iPhone (OSCemote) → WiFi → PC → Max/Msp → Serial port → Arduino → Original controller."

Via: Hacked Gadgets Comments


iPhone controlled R/C car from Josef Průša on Vimeo.

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37 Comments


  1. If somebody wants the source code, I can send it. Just write me email 😉

    Don’t forget to mention that we did it before two months 😉 So we are pioneers of iphone car controlling 😛


  2. Very cool! Is there ANYTHING that the iPhone can’t control? 😉


  3. Actuallly, the PC controls the car, and Iphone sends simple commands to the pc via WiFi. So, any 802.11 enabled phone can be used here. Nice project anyway.


  4. you mean the most important thing which contrll is wifi? without wifi it’s not possible. any phone which has wifi can control the car?


  5. Yes, exactly. If you can write a simple software for the phone, it can send commands to the pc. If ypu want a really interesting Phone+RC project, look for Open Boat with Neo 1973.(neo 1973 is the name of the phone)


  6. hi.i and josef průša is from the czech republic.this website is wery good.i am going here two years.


  7. KryÅ¡tof >>> “Josef Průša and I are both from Czech Republic. This site is great, I’ve been reading it here for already two years.” ;o)

    It’s nice to meet people from your country on web from other ;o)

    Kryštofe, jestli chceš, můžeme dát kafe. Jsem z Havl. Brodu.


  8. i would like a copy of the arduino source code for the iphone controlled remote control car.


  9. Hi everyone, I am very inpresed and my request is can you send me a iphone app and arduino skech if you please.


  10. hey that was amaizing, i want to do the same but in a real car, can u help me? i have de arduino mega, and i want to control, the engine star, windows, lights, horn, stereo, etc, whith the ipone, any idea?


  12. hi Alan ,

    i like your project ,i want to do almost the same ,could you tell me please how you attach the arduino to the original remote controller .

    thank you


  13. Hi Mehdi,

    Please click on the link in the article. It was not created by me, just featured here.

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