But this is the Nokia N900 and judging by Nokia's track record:
"You can control your car but with the following limitations:
Braking wll be available in the next update.
Airbags will not be controlled by the n900 because Nokia says "it is Not our responsibility it is the manufacturer and we don't want to pay for it".
Community steps up and installs party ballons instead (inflation is done by hamster lungs).
Nokia release MeeGo version and say "use this instead".
The MeeGo version can only drive the car forward does not steer and instantly drains the battery. The braking is a proprietory app and Nokia won't help the community to fix the battery problem."
this would be truely awesome, BT cars to race ya mate indoors as people have mentioned BT range will kill the fun on larger scale cars, the best size would be 1/32th like an x-mod or losi mini etc,
i ws planning on making one at a learnin project but my downside is that it's been years since i messed with rc's an electronics (other than using gadgets)an i am absolutely crap an coding (bash scripts are hard enough) but all that aside i'd still give it a go
To be fair, you could control anything with the N900.
Do what's been suggested and use a micro as a bluetooth-to-RF gateway
Do similar and use a micro as an IR-to-RF gateway with the N900 IR transmitter.
Do similar once more and use a micro as an FM-to-another-frequency gateway with fmtx
Do another similar thing and use a micro as a USB-to-RF gateway, with the N900 in host mode
Make an IP-to-RF gateway and do it over the network interface
The reason the N900 is more flexible than a lot of other devices is because of the number of I/O interfaces it supports; in addition to the more common GSM/WLAN/BT, there's also IR xmit, FM receive/xmit, USB client/host mode, audio output, composite video output.. be creative! Of course it would be pretty cool for the FM transmitter to be a software-defined radio and be able to flash it to operate at 40MHz, but it's probably the most flexible phone on the market as-is.
Also worth noting that any of the above would resolve the range issues with bluetooth/fmtx/IR, because the micro would just have to be in range of the N900 and the car - and at 40MHz it's distance from the car would be greater than bluetooth - rather than the phone itself needing to be within range of the car.
