London Developer Builds Android Powered RC Tank

Here’s a finelooking cool gadget for you. Let’s say you’ve gotten a touch bored of the typical things you may do with your phone. Sure, you may surf the net, or watch movies, or listen to music, or play games, or…well, you get the idea. But what if you’re bored of all that?

How regarding driving a tank?

Not a real tank, of course(as a heap of stories on the topic seem to imply). That’d be a peril to the safety of, well…pretty much everyone around you. It’d be an RC tank. A London web developer known as Tamlyn has taken an existent RC powered tank and proceeded to remove everything but the drive assemblage and power supply. What he substituted those with is simple: an Android phone, and an IOIO board so that the circuitry may be controlled remotely. By remotely, I mean over the internet. Have a look at the video:

It might not be a real tank, but it’s still downright awesome, in my opinion.

With whatsoever web browser happens to catch your fancy, you may send commands to a phone set up with a special application, home brewed by Tamlyn. The signals are sent to the phone’s USB port, wherein they are interpreted by the IOIO circuitry, which proceeds to utilise power to drive the tank in the direction you instructed. According to Tamlyn, even though the response time of the cobbled together Android RC is down to 30 ms on WiFi, there are likely to be issues with latency over a 3G connection.

As of the current moment, the tank unquestionably looks rather improvised, and you can’t do much other than move it around. Maybe numerous day in the future, Tamlyn might manufacture a more innovative app that lets you do a bit more- and a somewhat more complex array to go with it. It’s surely possible- after all, this little project is apparently his original application- and he finds coding for Android fabulously easy. Nice.

Image Credits: Android Central

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