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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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This of you who refuse to read French by victim · 2012-02-12 05:51 · Score: 4, Informative

might appreciate the vendor's site in English.
1. 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... ;)
2. Re:This of you who refuse to read French by Anaerin · 2012-02-12 06:06 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Really? Spanish? The ".it" at the end of the domain not enough of a clue for you?
iOS/Andorid+WIFI control != professional by cdrnet · 2012-02-12 06:04 · Score: 5, Informative

In order to control any RC device like a car or some multi-copter even remotely professionally you need precise controllers, reliable connectivity and low latency, all of which any iOS/Android touch devices seriously lack, by design.
Even intermediate hobbyist senders (actually bidirectional these days for telemetry, FPV etc.) have precise and adjustable mechanical contol sticks, come with specialized circuits to bypass the controller's CPU where low latency is of importance and use frequency hopping RC for more reliability and to allow hundreds of pilots in a close range.