The remote controller [Gilard] used is actually 20 years old, so the output signal of the receiver isn’t actually really clean. We do hope to never see this car on the road….

Looking for an easy way to control that Arduino powered robot you built? We just caught wind of a pair of apps for Android that look pretty handy! WiFi Bot Control and Bluetooth Bot Control. So, wh… ...

You don't have to assemble it yourself; the little plastic robot will be ready to go out of the box with an included remote control.

A perl script running on the iPhone will then send the command to the Arduino. When it receives the start command, the Arduino will ground the wire to the remote start and fire up the car.

Based on a Nordic Semiconductor 32-bit ARM system-on-chip that has built-in support for Bluetooth 4.0, the RFduino runs the same code as Arduino UNO and DUE boards, and it works with any type of ...

The team explain a little more: “Every project is remote controlled using our Arduino-based bluetooth chip, the MakerConnect, and our iOS and Android apps.

Randy Sarafan, who also happens to be the Technology Editor over on Instructables, gutted a remote-controlled car and swapped the parts for an Arduino board.