<p>IBM may be pondering the sale of its server business to Lenovo, and that's certainly big news. But it's not nearly as fun as the Raspberry Pi hack some of its engineers have been playing with. On the WebSphere Application Server development community site, the in-house team decided to show off a remote-controlled car that can be driven from any modern web browser that can process JavaScript.</p><p>Cramming a Raspberry Pi into an RC vehicle isn't exactly a new hack, but IBM's version puts an interesting spin on things. All control duties are handled by the Pi. The car's radio unit has been completely removed, so driving instructions are all delivered via Wi-Fi to the Pi, which in turn manipulates the car's steering and speed. That means you don't need to be standing within a certain range to control the car. As long as the Pi is receiving a strong Wi-Fi signal from somewhere and you know how to configure port forwarding, you can drive this thing from anywhere on the planet.</p><p>The setup is fully self-contained, as you'd hope a hacked RC car would be. Having a power cord dragging on the ground behind the Pi Mobile would be asking for trouble. The built-in battery provides plenty of juice for both the car's electric motor and the Pi-powered web server.</p><p>Clearly, the next logical step here is to take the IBM design full scale. Let's see a RaspBerry Pi driving an old K-Car on a closed track in Southern California from a comfortable, air-conditioned spot hundreds of miles away. Heck, let's go all the way and set up the first Raspberry Pi-powered remote demolition derby.</p><p><a href="http://www.geek.com/news/rc-car-with-on-board-raspberry-pi-can-be-driven-from-anywhere-1553277/">Keep reading...</a></p>