Micro CCD web cam modules are too expensive, but web cams for PCs are too big.

We need a small but cheap web cam module to mount on the Joker Racer devices.
So what should we do?

Ok, here's the step.

1. Get cheap web cam. We recommend Logicool's $30-50 web cams.

2. diassemble it.

3. Take the cover away.

4. You got it!

We recommend you to create your own USB cabel as the original one is too long for Joker Racer.

Enjoy!

We are making progress every day!

Our emulator is now controllable from iPhone!

Take a look at the cool iPhone application!

We adopt a racing-style design, but will change in the future release, as this is just a pre-prototype.

Joker Racer has new Logo! very cool!

White version:

Also, we've named our team as "Jokerworks".
Joker Racer is one of our product.
Joker Racer is focused on wifi controlled cars, meanwhile Jokerworks is focused on wifi controlled devices.

We have to get stickers!

For the people who doesn't have wifi cotrolled device but want to test drive as a developer, we have a plan to provide an emulator.

Joker Racer emulator ver0 from Yoski Akamatsu on Vimeo.

Though the above is a concept model (and 3 hour labor), controlling something over the internet is just fun, isn't it?

It is still just a prototype, but we are now test driving Akihabara, which is a famous electrical town in Japan.

Sorry, it is just a background image... but getting closer to our concept.

It would be nice if you can drive wifi control car from iPhone.

So we started prototyping.

The above shows that iPhone has a quite accurate "sensor".

Our application will send HTTP request to the server from iPhone, as you see above.

Yoski Akamatsu is CEO of sidefeed, Inc. since 2005.

Services:
toread - email based bookmark service
web scouter - a tool to check the media power of the web site

Blog:
@yoski tech note (English)
MyRSS Admin Blog (Japanese)

Twitter: yoski
facebook: Yoski Akamatsu

Junya Ishihara is a freelance engineer, mainly focused on Ruby on Rails projects.

Service: Kanji Fandom - English name to Kanji (Japanese logographic writing system) converter

Contribution: Localized POPFile (open-source email classification software) into Japanese

Blog: Developing Engineer (Japanese)

facebook: Junya Ishihara

Masanori Oomori is a board member of sidefeed, Inc.

Blog: groundwalker
Twitter: groundwalker