We have cell phones, we have picture cell phones, we have Zagis with 10 million pound batteries. We can have a cell phone be the receiver in a plane.
Is the following true? It is totally legal to fly a RC plane with two cell phones. The laws regarding 72mhz being only for flight is only to protect other frequencies from RC model airplane interference. There is no law against two cell phones being connected as that is their intended use. The user is free to use the cell phones inputs and outputs to control anything he desires outside the cell phone thus RC'ers are free from ever having crossed frequencies since no two cell phone owners are supposed to have the same number. One is the controller using the keypads buttons and the other is the receiver converting the tones to rc commands. Tone recognition chips existed early as the Apple Cat ][+ modem which only weigh a few grams. Trained voice recognition chips weigh the same but flying by keypad is better. That could be version one. Version two could create various pitched tones for interpolated control. You could always link your cell phone into your PC and let people around the world on the internet take a hand at flying your plane :) If you think it is too hard to hook up the electronics you simply do not understand how to hook up the electronics, burn chips and write code- it is totally possible and somebody will do it first regardless of legality. I wish I could try it as I'd like to fly by picture phone but I am a poor uneducated fool mastering in Ebonics. Steve --- Martin Usher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The modern thing to do is to put an embedded Web server in the unit which we > can work using either a browser running on the local interface (the radio > proper) or remotely over a network interface of some sort. > > It won't happen for some time. Manufacturer's a many years behind the state > of the art with their products -- they took a long time to put processors in > lower cost radios even though its cheaper to have a design built around a > single capable, cheap, processor than to build the radio with numerous > specialized components. Even today displays are bad, they're just simple > monochrome LCDs with a few lines of text and some poor quality graphics (if > any). > > The data interface could be USB but wireless would be a lot nicer (it should > be Bluetooth but I don't think that's going anywhere in the PC space). > (Infra-red might work as well.) > > Martin Usher > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and > "unsubscribe" > requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages > must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
