Ever wanted to use your iPhone and it’s accelerometer to control your R/C car? Well Josef Prusa did and went a step further to make it happen using OSCemote. Josef has been kind enough to post how it was accomplished for anyone else wishing to so as well.

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.

Thanks goes to Richard Perez for sending this into our tip line hacks@iphone-hacks.com.