Users can bypass the cardboard kit build and hack battery-operated toys, radio-controlled vehicles and so on to create their own telepresence bot.

The "Lost in Space" robot toy was released by Remco in 1966 and is now highly valued by collectors. Courtesy of Remco Industries Today, we manage many things in our lives remotely. Changing TV ...

[jcopro] is pretty fond of Glade automatic air fresheners. Using a pair of them, he built a simple remote-controlled toy which he shared with us over the weekend. You may remember that he built a ...

And the cell-phone remote interface that lets him control the onboard camera and its elevation and lighting. Driving the thing around with the phone control looks fun.

For the remote-controlled motorcar, the reader translates the button pressing and makes use of the ‘HD rumble’ on the joycons to make the cardboard car move around.

If you're going to call your invention "the greatest (fill in the blank) in the universe," you'd better be prepared to show off something truly amazing. Luckily for toy maker, Jaimie Mantzel, he may ...

A cardboard piano can sense which key is being pressed, the rumble in the control can cause a remote-control “car” to move, and so on and so forth.

[Photo: Randy Sarafan] If you ever bought yourself or your kids a remote-control car, you’ll know how quickly people get bored of them, leaving the toy tossed to one side. However, if you were looking ...