The iPhly allows you to ditch the bulky and expensive R/C equipment for something more portable, like your iPhone.
We’ve seen remote control accessories before, but they only work with accompanying vehicles. iPhly actually has the ability to control anything from airplanes to RC cars that you already own. How does it work?
The iPhly connects to your iPhone via the accessory port. The device uses a pre existing frequency module, or you can purchase one along with the product. The developer notes that iPhly is compatible with thousands of different R/C models.
The accompanying iPhone app allows you to control your R/C vehicle with touch screen and motion controls. You can even save remote control settings and take pictures of each one of your R/C vehicles to identify each profile.
iPhly replaces those incredibly expensive controllers with a considerably cheaper and far more compact housing that attaches to your iPhone and interfaces with it through the headphone/mic port. So instead of flying an RC plane via a couple of sticks, you can take advantage of the iPhone’s built-in gyroscope to pitch, roll and even throttle up by swiping across the display.
It consists of an open-source app, which is already available on iTunes, and an injection-moulded case that the phone slides into. Pretty much any common brand of frequency module, which hobbyists will already have in their conventional controller, plugs into the back of that case (frequency modules can also be purchased on their own, from hobby stores). Electronics in the case receive signals from the phone, via its headphone jack, and relay them to the module – it, in turn, sends them on up to the plane.