My Home-Made Cell Phone Triggered Circuit
 

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but I couldn't find any other categories that this would fall under. This is a small project that I'm working on that I thought I'd share with you guys here, especially to see if there are any electronic hobyists or electrical engineers in the making.

So here I made a cell-phone triggered circuit for fun that basically gets triggered by a cell phone.

You call the cell phone, it rings, and sends out a signal to a circuit.


This is very useful for various things like launching a rocket (which I've already done), launching off fireworks, opening your garage door, turning on a webcam, and copious other different applications.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpOzitB93Ak

The phone I used was a $10 disposable phone that I got from Wallmart.

I plan to eventually possible turn this much bigger project by making a cell-phone controlled RC car. Basically you call the phone attached to the car which utilizes a PIC 2 microprocessor, and then you can control it with the keypad of the phone that called it.

Note:
You can ignore the piece of paper in the background, I posted this on my home forum and I just wanted to prove that it was made by me, by no means am I trying to advertise the forum.

Hmm, I am sure I'm not the only one who thinks this could be used for more sinister purposes :) nice little project though

came right to my mind...
Evilish stuff :mad:

Well I admire your 'inventive spirit' I myself did those kind of crazy stuff 15 years ago, like track my family in the house via a pin...
but why you don't follow the right path? narrow the idea and patent the process...

I'm sure Al-Queda already patented this sort of technology;)

Not sure they're concerned with patents, but I'm fairly certain this is how the officials believe the Madrid bombings were perpetrated.

Rapscallion

Sell it to FBI.

Or sell it as a vBulletin premium modification.

doing exactly what?

So aren't you thought of a commercial application... but you thought it will be a good product for us?

man you got your values backwards....

It was a joke...

I would connect that to my cars remote starter. Then I can just call my car to start it up!