Cars and boats don’t fly. They often come with a gun like transmitter with a steering wheel and a trigger for speed. I have seen them called “surface” transmitters, because they don’t worl with planes or quads (which usually use the two sticks). Anything that can transmit 2 channels can control speed and steering.
I keep coming back to the rc hobbies. I have had a few dozen models. So I invested in a transmitter that can run them all.
Are you sure? They make everything in China. Out of stock stuff ships straight from China.
Ah yeah. They only sell through the website. RC is one of those places where you need to know where to go. Buying hockey gear online is the same thing. There are a few sites that work, and you can pretty much only find out by word of mouth. The search results are all flooded by amazon and big retailers.
I had heard that some R/C cars were outfitted with gyros and smart controllers that would automatically steer to achieve a target orientation, e.g. when drifting.
It never occurred to me that that could be done with pitch/throttle also.
I do too. At this point I’ve played with everything but boats. By far my favorite was helicopters, but those things are rediculously expensive to crash.
I’ve been looking at 3d printing a rc airplane. Should be fun.
Speaking of TPU I got reminded of your Tarmo. Did you see that someone remixed it? Printables
Looks insane and I am happy that I didn’t start building the Tarmo yet.
Wow! Amazing! I did finish the tarmo 5 yes, and it’s quite fun. Especially when there’s no snow!! BUT, things do snap more often than I’d like it to.
I’ve gotten a friend recently who is into RC. He really likes the 3dsets, so we are planning to make Landrovers together. They are slower crawler, but I think that might be more suitable for the kids. My son is afraid of driving the tarmo, he know’s too well that handled wrong it could certainly wreck itself, but worse hurt people.
