Packed with an incredible amount of hardware, and increasingly likely to be running an open source firmware, the modern RC transmitter is effectively a little multi-purpose computer in its own right.

I started with a Walkera HM M120D01 6 Channel RTF RC Helicopter w/ 2.4GHz WK-2603 Transmitter, with unfortunately disastrous results. This plane is pretty delicate, and prone to mechanical problems, ...