This is great -- developer Wannes Vermeulen has hacked a toy remote control car with an Arduino board and hooked it up to an iPad to drive it around. You can see video of the project in action over on ...

Ten years ago, on the 28 March 2005 the first Arduinos hit the market. There'd been maker boards before, and the early days of computing were full of machines that gave users access to the IO ports.

R/C cars can be tons of fun, but sometimes the fun runs out after awhile. [Gaurav] got bored of steering around his R/C car with its remote, so he built an interface that lets him control the car ...