WI-DRIVE

A while ago I sent an email around asking people for ideas of something fun and interesting we can do with an Arduino board and some basic components. I received a bunch of replies but nothing practical enough for us to actually play with (sadly). It was then pretty much forgotten about until Gav arrived at the end of last year to help us out with a project...

Wi-Drive is Gavin Williams' final year major project at Bournemouth University on the Interactive Media Production course. This is what he says about it:

"So I’ve devised Wi-Drive, a module made from an Arduino board and various components to drive a toy Tamiya car over Wi-Fi from any application by sending post requests to the arduino board with directions, but that’s not all, I’ve decided to blow my student loan on a pair of virtual reality glasses and a pin hole camera to strap to the car, so it feels like you’re actually in the thing, if time allows and my brain is willing to take the extra learning curve I’ll plonk an extra servo in the car that will turn to correspond to the drivers head movements. The idea is complete immersion, putting you literally into the driver seat.
The final product must be unobtrusive so that you can apply the same methods to other vehicles such as remote control helicopters and aeroplanes."

You can read all about it here:

http://wi-drive.co.uk/