You don't have to assemble it yourself; the little plastic robot will be ready to go out of the box with an included remote control.

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Randy Sarafan, who also happens to be the Technology Editor over on Instructables, gutted a remote-controlled car and swapped the parts for an Arduino board.

[Chet] is showing off the Bluetooth controller upgrade for this RC car. The donor vehicle is a rather inexpensive Porche which he purchased to make sure he didn’t start hacking up his more ex… ...

The remote controller [Gilard] used is actually 20 years old, so the output signal of the receiver isn’t actually really clean. We do hope to never see this car on the road….

The team explain a little more: “Every project is remote controlled using our Arduino-based bluetooth chip, the MakerConnect, and our iOS and Android apps.

Download the codes here Arduino simple shield potentiometer code: Arduino shield rc car: Arduino nano module L298P code: ...

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A perl script running on the iPhone will then send the command to the Arduino. When it receives the start command, the Arduino will ground the wire to the remote start and fire up the car.