Symbian Resources has released a new application called ShakerRacer that utilizes the 3D Acceleration Sensor of a Nokia S60 3rd Edition mobile device such as Nokia 5500 Sport, N93i, N95 or N82 to control and drive a real world Radio Control (RC) toy car using your hand/body movements. The software is quite simple to use- just tilt your mobile phone in the direction you want to drive.

The RC car used was modded to accept Bluetooth instead of the proprietary wireless module that shipped with it. A small microcontroller and a Bluetooth module replaced the original wireless components. On the mobile device, a Python script translates the input of the acceleration sensor to commands that the microcontroller can understand in order to manage the steering servo as well as the main motor.

It won’t be an exaggeration to say that in the near future, you would be able to control a real car as well with a mobile device.