Radio Controlled Cars

Radio Controlled Car Article Snippets:

If you are ready to take flight with an electric RC plane, but you don’t have a large field nearby to fly one, then the 4-channel Float and Land Plane might be the answer for you!
The 4-Channel Float and Land Plane has the ability to take-off and land on both land and sea. This “specially designed” plane comes with landing gear for land, or wheels, and also comes with “floats” for landing on water. So whether you have a field to fly it in, or if you are going to the lake, you can take RC fun with you. All you have to do is remove and replace the landing gear for the terrain you are planning to use it on.
This plane has excellent control and stability, making it easier to learn with than more complex, more expensive planes. It is steady in flight and very easy to master. It also is a great plane for flying at slow speed. Flying at slow speed makes it easier to fly in restricted-space and low altitude situations, so if you are flying in a small field or above a small lake, you have better control. Overall, it is an outstanding …

Radio Controlled Car Questions & Answers:

Technical Help?? Remote control Cars!?
I am a year 10 student doing a G.C.S.E technology project at school. My project is to build a T.V remote holder with a system to find the T.V remotes if they are lost. As part of my project, i plan to embed a transmitter and receiver device from a Radio Controlled Car into my design. I want to basically replace the motor in the circuit board of the RC Car with a buzzer so that when i move the stick on the controller up, the buzzer sounds. I will then clip the circuit board of the RC Car to the back of the T.V Remote. I have to cut the circuit board down in size so that i can clip it to the back of the remote with a buzzer. Have you any ideas as to what i could do? Thank you very much for your time and help.

RC cars usually use a SERVO system to engage power to the drive motor.

Keep the servo, but exchange the motor for a Buzzer, simple, but a very expensive way of doing it.

A much cheaper way would to be to not use the (multi channel) R/C circuits from a car, but something simple like a digital, singe channel TX/RX circuit like ….

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=22965&doy=15m6

advantages for Transmitter & Receiver Pair

low cost , £10 a pair
Transmit range up to 70m
Wide operating voltage (2-14V)
Easy to build and test
Available from Maplin

The TX/RX pair could run off the batteries in the remote (as it will go down to 2v)

Part VY48C