Aww man, you’re making the wait even more difficult 
I knew the moment this new product was announced that it wouldn’t take long to see other stuff than cars haha
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Hey everyone, we’ve just launched our first CyberBrick model for makers to start printing while they wait for their CyberBrick kits to arrive. Happy printing and playing!
Lunar Rover RVR-HD1 - CyberBrick RC Car by ozarkexpeditionsMakerWorld: Download Free 3D Models
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Hi everyone! It’s been so fun to see all of the new CyberBrick models hit the site lately. We still can’t wait to see what everyone builds when their kit arrives.
We just wanted to let the folks know that were following this thread that the rubber band launcher is now live on MakerWorld. There is a YouTube video of it in action on the model page if you’d like to see how it works.
I might post an article on some of the design process and iterations we went through when designing it if that is of interest to anyone. Cheers and happy printing.
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I have searched for information about whether the Cyberbrick can be wifi controlled via an app but have not been succesful in my search.
Can anyone confirm if this would be possible? Or does it only work as an R/C control system with a transmitter?
I intend to use it to control electric garden railway locomotives. There is a product called Loco Remote but since they do not ship to EU countries I’m looking for other options. Loco Remote uses wifi control via a phone app.
TIA
Michael
The CyberBrick kit has a transmitter and receiver chip so you’ll be able to have a physical controller for the RC train.
The app is designed to send remote configurations to the chips to work with a given model and where the various devices are plugged into the chip.
From my understanding, the chips themselves have Bluetooth and WiFi. So maybe in the future it would be possible to control it via an app, but for now it’s physical controllers.
You may want to ask the CyberBrick team if there is an official answer.
Thanks for clearing that up. IIRC I read somewhere that the RX was WiFi enabled so as you say, control via app might become a possibility in the future.
To clarify, the Receiver is WiFi ‘capable’. With current code it is not connected to your WiFi network and, I’d have to look at the code, but I’d be surprised if WiFi is even turned on while running in Receiver mode.
Are you looking specifically for a Phone App or will a PC/Laptop solution work for you?
The reason I ask is that it’s probably relatively easy to modify the TX code to ‘listen’ to a Serial link and then re-transmit to your receiver.
The original review units were entirely WiFi for all communications.
The publicly released version uses Bluetooth for all communications with each other and the desktop and mobile apps.
I do not have the public version yet, so I do not know if they removed all us of WiFi for communications.
The hardware has both protocols as the review unit has a firmware upgrade to use Bluetooth.
Much of the sort of hardware BL uses includes both protocols.
I was under the impression that the protocol used between the RX & TX was ESPNOW, which uses a WiFi frequency channel, but not WiFi protocol. But the details of that are buried in the closed library.
Regardless of the protocol, however, I think the hooks are there to use modified TX code to send the necessary commands to the RX device. I’m now thinking that the TX device ‘might’ be able to host a Webserver so then any device providing a browser would be able to provide ‘some’ functionality. Performance might be a limitation, but representing controls on a webpage is fairly easy.
Whether an RX device could host is an interesting question, but given the single core processor, that might be asking too much! 
I was curious if it could be enabled to be controlled by a mobile app.
Would you consider a browser on your mobile device accessing a webpage on your RC device a ‘mobile app’?
I suppose so.
I don’t mind using a dedicated TX if that is the option available but being able to use a phone reduces the need for extra hardware.
@ozarkexpeditions Sorry for hijacking your topic. @CyberBrick Probably should move this conversation to a new thread, maybe starting at post #23.