IRemoco is a remote-control fondle helicopter that you expostulate with your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The $100 pack contains the chopper itself, along with a dongle that plugs in to the wharf connector of your iDevice and sends your instructions to the helicopter. The plan - now looking appropriation on Kickstarter - differs from other IR ‘copters in the way you manage it.
While you can opt to use on-screen joysticks to fly the helicopter, it looks similar to a lot more fun to use suit control. The app (already in the App Store to examine out for free) uses the accelerometer or gyroscope inside the iDevice to interpret the phone's movements in to helicopter's movements. Tilt the phone to the side and the ‘copter does the same.
Both the helicopter and the remote have rechargeable batteries (via USB), and the helicopter is gyroscopically stabilized, creation it easy to fly. Should you collision it, the motors will cut out, and the rotors are all done of bendy cosmetic so they should rebound back only fine. Should you manage to tear a anyway, there are deputy blades in the box.
The designers, Andrew Ayres and Tom Sisterson, plan to bring more toys to marketplace if this a takes of (sorry), and they will use the same coordinator dongle, thus creation the new toys cheaper. Even now, if you have more than a helicopter (for instance, if you opt is to $150 two-chopper pack) then you can manage them from the same phone, heartwarming on-screen buttons to switch between them.
I'm sold. I'd completely admire to take a of these for a spin. And here's anticipating Andrew and Tom's future skeleton add a helicopter with a camera that can lamp back to the iPad's screen. Then we could at last find out what's creation my nearby resident so cheerful on her fenced-off roof-terrace that she screams in delight.
iRemoco – remote manage helicopter for iPhone, iPod iPad [Kickstarter. Thanks, Paul!]
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