{"id":3481,"date":"2009-03-12T20:05:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T04:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2009-03-12T20:07:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T04:07:46","slug":"autobobile-f1-blackberry-storm-controls-f1-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3481","title":{"rendered":"Automobile F1 &#8211; BlackBerry Storm Controls F1 Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now, the best use of a BlackBerry Storm I have seen to date: Lewis Hamilton, the British Formula One driver, appears in a YouTube video controlling his F1 car remotely with Research in Motion&#8217;s touchscreen smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the backstory: A couple of Vodafone subscribers in the UK hacked a BlackBerry Storm to race a toy R\/C F1 car around a homemade track. That&#8217;s what appears in the first minute or so of the video. The Storm&#8217;s built-in accelerometer lets them steer the car by tiling the phone back and forth, while acceleration and braking is controlled with buttons on the phone&#8217;s touch screen, according to Autoblog.<\/p>\n<p>Once word got out and Team McLaren heard about it, they invited the fellows to the McLaren Mercedes garage, where they adapted the control system to a real F1 car&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlog.com\/2009\/03\/blackberry_storm_controls_f1_c.php\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FiLoANg6nNY\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FiLoANg6nNY\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now, the best use of a BlackBerry Storm I have seen to date: Lewis Hamilton, the British Formula One driver, appears in a YouTube video controlling his F1 car remotely with Research in Motion&#8217;s touchscreen smartphone. Here&#8217;s the backstory: A couple of Vodafone subscribers in the UK hacked a BlackBerry Storm to race a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-video_games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3484,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}