The radio-controlled hobbies thread

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What would you do with an electric radio-controlled car that can exceed 65 mph?

http://www.losi.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=LOSB0101

Personally, besides driving it down the highway from the passenger seat of my car while my wife drove our real car,
if I had the money, I'd purchase 4 hobby micro cameras -- the 50-gram kind you can buy for R/C helicopters -- and I would
mount them on the R/C car, thusly: one aiming forward, as if to give a virtual driver's perspective; two of them I would aim left and right respectively, to provide a virtual driver's perspective of those directions; and the last camera I would install facing the rear, as a virtual rear-view mirror perspective. Then, I would sit at home in the midst of four wide-screen monitors, arrayed to form a square around me, giving me a full virtual driver's perspective. After that, I would boost the range of the receiver and transmitter considerably through any number of technical means currently available.

And then, I'd have fun "driving" around the city "in" my tiny, full-speed car!

Incidentally, as the title indicates, this thread is for all R/C hobby enthusiasts.
I myself am into helicopters at the moment, but I've always loved cars and trucks too.

Then again, 65 is a bit slow...

Here's a truck doing 88:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9xFJ_tmxVg&feature=related[/youtube]

sweet!! now you need a time-flux capacitor since you've got 88mph down.


if it wasn't too expensive, i'd probably drive it around traffic and see if i could maneuver it around...but if the cost'd be too high to replaced a squished car, i'd probably just bring it up and down the street and maybe try and find people for drag racing.

134.4 mph:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI5xLNeNDO8[/youtube]


200 mph (keep watching... it keeps getting faster even when you're sure it won't) :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPmwx6A5sqY[/youtube]

I fancy purchasing an RC T-34 and an RC tiger tank and refighting Kursk in my back yard. Cost about.. 120 pounds sterling to do that. Hours of fun.

have got self a RTR thunder tiger phoenix ST stadium truck [no nitro] for christmas,its got strong suspension on it,havent seen it working yet,only seen it on crap quality videos on youtube-but they look good enough.

the tamiya buggys and trucks look awesome,but thats because someone good has made them up,
would never be able to do a kit rc like that,best left to the pros.

Just bought this baby last night with my Christmas bonus:

http://www.traxxas.com/products/electric/rustler3705/trx_rustler3705.htm

Cool! How many RCs is too many? My backyard is a 1:10 racetrack. MambaMax brushless systems will easily do 65mph, I have several. I can't get people to come drive with me anymore.

I would scare you if I said how many thousands I've spent on RC. Just can't get enough. Think it drives my wife crazy at times. My latest aquisitions is the full set of Tamiya Q-Steers, so cute and so tiny. Wife bought me a new racer buggy for X-mas, crazy fast on 3s Li-Po. Need to get myself one of those new Savage-Fluxes, unbreakable trucks and standing backflips.

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