RC Touch - turning iPhone or iPad into a RC controller for drones
We ever posted a article in DIYdrones' forum to see the feasibility of turning iphone into a RC controller. It seems that people are not very keen on it, partly due to the lack of precise control through tilt action and partly due to the reluctance of giving up an actual control stick. So we disabled the tilt action and modified the interface into a RC simulation one. Then we give the full set of gadget-hardware that translates the signal coming out from headphone jack into radio and app in iphone or ipad to control drones-a name RC Touch:
the original interface of the app was like this:
the modified interface is like this:
We adapted this from iPhly
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Comment by Project Nadar on January 16, 2013 at 1:18pm
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Hmmmm and what happens if the tablet / phone. crashes? :D
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Comment by John Wiseman on January 16, 2013 at 2:36pm -
Very impressive!
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Comment by Hex Air Robot on January 21, 2013 at 3:53am -
the App already available on App store, here is the link
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