From the Nuremberg Toy Fair, a New Linux System For RC Cars

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 12, 2012 @05:34AM from the good-tech-makes-good-toys dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last weekend, during the Nuremberg Toy Fair 2012, I spotted a really cool new system for 'professional' RC models based on Embedded Linux. The WiRC allows you to control an RC car (or any other RC vehicle) with an iOS/Android device using WiFi. The core of this system is a 240 MHz ARM9 processor, with 16 MB SDRAM and 4 MB FLASH (with 2 USB ports and 802.11b/g WiFi, a microphone input and a Speaker output). It features 8+4 channels of output. A free software SDK is now in development to code your own transmitter applications."

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Linux for RC by Neil_Brown · 2012-02-12 05:37 · Score: 3, Funny

-bash: rc: command not found
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Re:This of you who refuse to read French by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-12 05:59 · Score: 5, Funny

especially since it's Italian... ;)
Re:This of you who refuse to read French by SlashV · 2012-02-12 06:09 · Score: 2, Funny

WHOOSH
Re:Nuremberg? by Johann+Lau · 2012-02-12 09:47 · Score: 3, Funny

no, it's for war driving actually.