iPhone Hacks · Hacks, Cracks, Mods, Homebrew, Utilities

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.

Russian hackers from gpda.ru have created a cool looking glowing Apple logo mod for the iPhone. Luckily since I can’t read Russian inews76.com has published some English information. Currently no instructions or lists of parts used to accomplish this mod have been released. Hopefully this will be made public in the future so others can enjoy this mod.

…they had 2 ready iPhones and a couple of “apple” parts. Modding consists of removing the aluminum “fruits” and inserting the glowing ones…

…The apple now glows on Macbooks and iPhones. The battery doesn’t suffer a lot, you can adjust the glow level in Settings menu.

Click the ‘More…’ link for a few pictures of the glowing Apple logo in action.

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