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Re: hmph
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Date:
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Mon, 5 Feb 1996 00:18:11 GMT
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Fred G. Martin <fredm@media.mit.edu^ihatespam^>
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> How about buying a $15 RC car from radio shack and adding a $15 servo to
> do the front steering? I haven't tried it. I'm using RC-10 cars and
> they're GREAT. Independent suspension, hispeed, good traction...
> but several hundred dollars.
Be careful. Cheap RC cars tend to use 3v motors that want to draw a
fair bit of current.
Expensive RC cars use motors in a better voltage range for the HB
(.e.g, 8.4 or 9.6v), but they draw serious current (5 to 10A easy).
-F
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| why not use the cars drive electronics, just bypass the radio part, it would take a little work to find the points where the motors are turned on, but it should work. Just watch out for other people with remote control units. (...) (29 years ago, 6-Feb-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: hmph
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| (...) How about buying a $15 RC car from radio shack and adding a $15 servo to do the front steering? I haven't tried it. I'm using RC-10 cars and they're GREAT. Independent suspension, hispeed, good traction... but several hundred dollars. -- (...) (29 years ago, 4-Feb-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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