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Go X10 Speed Racer!
BoomZilla writes ""Speedy" Shayne Barr races Nitro
RS4 remote controlled Racecars competitively. These cars are nitro fueled, 1/10
scale, and they can go as fast as fifty miles per hour. To make his racing more
interesting, he has hooked up an XCam2 to his racecar so
that not only can he race the car, he can also view the race from the car's
viewpoint after the race is over. Speedy's posted a number of videos on his website where he describes the
construction process. The vid where his
car winds up on its roof is most entertaining. Go Speed(y) Racer!"
to get a first post!
It's almost impossible these days, isn't it?
But does it do what I want?
That's a great way of saying kill this site, please!
Now it's time to rig on to a kite at the beach ;)
are the racing groupies 1/10 the size?
Choosing the lesser of two evils is a choice for evil.
I'm assuming that he is only using the camera for fun, not during an actual race? In RC car races the weight is kept the minimum possible, I don't think adding the 5.8 ounces for this camera is going to help him get on the podium.
now all we need are 1/10 scale drivers. Can we say go speed midget racer?
Hold up, wait a minute, let me put some pimpin in it
I fail to see how can I use this to spy on girls in skimpy clothing. Is there a very tiny girl driving the tiny car I can watch somehow with the tiny camera?
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now all we need are 1/10 scale drivers
You'll find plenty in Lilliput.
Will I retire or break 10K?
What bloody format is that avi encoded in? I do a lot of video editing, but my Win2k system doesn't have the correct video codec.
Just make them look like they could go fast if they wanted. Perhaps an offset racing stripe, or a "v-tec" sticker. Check out the official Rice Boy Page for more info.
Ever seen a colorfully decalled-to-death crap car (usually a Honda Civic) with no power under the hood, but giving off the impression like it's powerful? Well, most of our remote controlled cars arent either and we have no hopes of competing with this guy. Just put stickers on it and any idion who sees the thing will definately be as impressed as he/she would be if it were the real deal.
Note: "Rice boy" is not a derrogatory racist term; the website deals with this issue. Check it's FAQ before flaming.
Slashdot: Where people pretend to be twice as smart as they really are by behaving like children.
Server is in its death throes... must be all the pervs who are clicking on the X10 ads and getting sent to his page and d/l the videos.
Moral?
videos + x10 + fast and furious RC cars = super slashdotting.
...in under 13 seconds. Sadly, no X-10 camera is available to see that resulting crash!
how speedily this site gets slashdotted
Hmm, nitro RC cars, videos, slashdot...
:)
Think I'll leave it a few days before I even bother clicking the link
I've heard from people who build and race the electric cars that they can achieve speeds of 70mph. What scale are they?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
How much money did you get for the X10 Ad? When are the really annoying flashing ones coming?
Okay I'm only kidding. Actually those camera's look really cool, I'd probably get one if their business model didn't remind me of used car salesmen.
I also want one of these little cars.
The Anti-Blog
"RC" stands for "radio controlled."
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the site is on google http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:SlJc55fUhMQC: racenut.com/barrc/carcam.html+&hl=en&ie=UT F-8
how could he put it on a car that is 22 cm long and 11 cm tall?
And here I was thinking that all those X10 popup adds were obnoxious and without a purpose.
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read that initially as Go X-10 and think popup adds?
And I thought I was immune to things on Slashdot startling me...
"I object to doing things that computers can do." -- Olin Shivers, lispers.org
with a Tiny R/C Digi Q Cars and a KY-D29UCH 3-CCD COLOR CAMERA not with quite as much success, but I promise not to give up.
I'm guessing the car can also be used to spy on women or protect the family...special offer only two days left!
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In the article it said he had to flip the camera, shorten some of the wires and actually slim down the battery compartment.
You've gotta love "QuickTime Format" videos that won't play on QuickTime on Apple® OS X.
Mpegs are my friend.
Mpegs are my friend...
political_news.c: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
Here's one racer.
I'm much to unwitty to think of anything else that was semi-orginal in content ;)
be friendly to my poor .net server. but thank god for unlimited bandwidth per month.
http://matt.yi.org/racer/
its only 3.5 adsl with 80 up. max ten connections so my i can still use my comp.
1. Put X10 Cam on a nitro car
2. make lots of videos of it
3. get slashdotted
4. ???
5 Profit!
seriously though, wouldn't this be funny if it was all one bit X10 ad and in a few moments a big X10 pop-up would appear?
They're Intel Indeo Video 4.1
I had to run the Indeo installer to get the video to play on my system.
*pondering*
So it isn't being used for porno? Or spying on someone? Or tawdry videoconferencing?
I think this guy should be recognized more for finally discovering a legitimate use for one of those cameras than anything else.
-D
Unless the cars are NUDE, of course.
Oh, and this crap about how much time before you can hit submit after reply is bullshit.
After much searching I found that the Nitro Car is the same scale as the standard (1/10 scale) R/C which people get together around here and race in parking lots on Sunday mornings.
Having to go beyond RC or R/C usually indicates I'm addressing someone else who doesn't know, thanks for taking the time to explain it clearly and avoid anonymously flaming.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Imagine the possibilities of a small car (4" long or so) with a small camera (at a fairly high frame rate) racing in and out of dressing rooms or in a shopping mall. Sure, there's the risk of it getting stepped on, so be sneaky.
While the .avi played fine with QT6, the quicktime file did not.
If you change the filetype and creator of the quicktime file to:
VfW¥
TVOD
they'll work fine with Quicktime.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
No more spy-on-the-teenage-babysitter-from-x10-in-vent scenes... now we can give new RC cars to our kids and get full videos of the upskirt scenes as they run the cars all around the house! (or was that the beach... /me whips out mini sand-tires)
I guess the X10 car idea just sorta "popped up" ::dodging tomatos::
--Joey
I guess posting a story with videos is just asking to be slashdotted.
That stuffs nothin..
check out
TriLordy Nitro
I think it has really become a problem. Because for one, the victim didn't necessarily choose to be on Slashdot. Or for that matter even knows his server being ravaged by a million geeks. Slashdot's server is capable of handling the load, so what's stopping them from hosting a mirror on their site? With the exception of copyrights and such, I'm sure the admin would gladly have a mirror setup on slashdot in substitution for getting a $5k b/w bill.
step 1. mount X-10 camera to RC car
step 2. drive through a crowd of skirts
step 3. ???
step 4. Profit!
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
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I use to do this kind of thing when i was in HS and actually had spare time. If you have never been to a 1/10 or 1/8 scale race i seriously advise checking it out. It is very cool. Also, the technology in these model cars is nothing short of awesome. The techniques used for battery matching, motor tuning, and suspension setup are insanely complex. Pick up an issue of RC Car Action at your local bookstore and flip through the pages. It's a great hobby if you got the time and $$.
I came to the datacenter drunk with a fake ID, don't you want to be just like me?
Whenever Shayne shows off his fantastic little car, a nicely curved girl pops up with a commercial sign
for X10... I read X10 has taken patent on this type of commercials... they call it Live Popups (TM)...
Anomalous behavior. Somebody better do some checking.
He still can sneak up on someone! Like in that 007 movie, when Q uses a robot to sneak up on James bond while he is screwing the latest "bond chick" anyway now all the pervs will see this page and soon well have whole streets full of those cars. Oh the humanity!
Live for the present, learn from the past, and dream of the future!
Always makes me chuckle when there are videos on some guy's DSL posted on the front page
-- This post (c) 2003, Knights who say Ni, LTD.
I mean, his website looked like it was slow, not his car. ;D
is how much x10.com paid for that link placement.
Huh, Andover? Is this thing on?
In our school's theatre we are doing MacBeth as our current production. We are using the X10 cameras to do live video that we are gonna show on about 16 monitors, both tvs and computer screens. They are small enough to let an actor wear and cheap enough to buy a few of em. I always despised the popups but hey, they seem to work pretty well.
"he has hooked up an XCam2"
He supported those pop-up bastards with his money? Say it ain't so!
I used to be into racing electric R/C trucks, but I have a friend that races an HPI Nitro RS4 like the ones on the site competatively. They are VERY fast. They can out-accellerate anything else on wheels just due to the laws of physics, and the gearing on my friend's RS4 is set up to top out at 60 MPH. Any more than that is pointless because you need to be able to see the car whiz on by. My point is you should KNOW something about what you're talking about before you start talking smack. 1.2 horsepower in a tiny little car is one HELL of a power to weight ratio that not even a Ferrari F50 could match.
"Dancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire" --Robert Frost
Used to love radio-controlled cars as a kid.
I would always read in the catalog that the car would reach speeds of 60-70mph! Wow! I thought... that's awesome!
Until the car arrived, and I quickly realized that they weren't going anywhere near that speed. ONLY THEN did I note the asterisk in the catalog where they specified "scale speeds" of 60-70mph. Nice Marketdroid double-speak, designed to fool a kid like me, and I fell for it. Talk about feeling cheated...
If this one really, truly goes that fast (and not "scale speed"), that's pretty amazing for a model car.
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
"....as fast as fifty miles per hour."
A lot of stock, commodity 1/10th scale electric RC cars can go 60 mph, out of the box. With modifications, much, MUCH faster. And that's not even getting into the gas-powered rigs.
steve
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
My dad runs an R/C hobby shop.... the fastest recorded speed for an electric 1/10th scale car back when I worked for him (around 5 years ago) was an RC/10 clocked at 72MPH...
Although I could see them being higher by now...
"Speed Racer meets Racer X-10".
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
what about mounting a cam on a remote control airplane, you know one of the one's that can do like 70 miles an hour.
imagine how fun that would be!
you could have your car passenger search ahead for speed traps on the freeway or you could even fly the plane to the point where you lose sight of it.
ooh, with that right transmission control, one could fly drugs up from south america on a drone aircraft..
I met up with a friend who wanted to see my 1/8th scale landmax Evo in action. He brought his little Tamiya electric so that we could play together...
By the time I fueled my car and got it started, his batteries had run out. : )
Once mine was running, he put his away in disgust. Anyone who's never seen Nitro RC in action has not a clue of the incredible performance.
Mine gets up to 70kph with the single speed gearbox and 140kph(!) with the automatic 3 speed gearbox (which I wish I had).
They can be finicky to tune though, even with a slight change in fuel.
I get nervous every time I take it out and fire it up. Once I rather stupidly (in all the excitement) started the engine before switching on the transmitter. I pulled the rip cord and then WAAAHHHHH... off it took all on it's own, fully open (carb). Luckily I did remember to switch on the receiver so all I had to do was grab the transmitter and switch it on quickly to avoid slamming the thing into something.
I like to think of it as an RC car that goes on 67% Indycar fuel, 15% dymamite, 18% lube. : )
No matter where I take this thing, kids just come out of the woodwork from all directions, it's amazing what attention you get. People driving by stop and watch, kids or no kids. : )
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
I mean, what this guy has done is certainly a creative and dare I say worthy use of one of those nefarious X10 pervcams, but damn... Calling an Intel Indeo avi a QuickTime movie is pretty damn irritating, particularly given the fact that it won't ever play on OS X without borking the creator codes. If you're lucky that'll work. And don't even get me started on divx. Just a thought to people who want videos posted somewhere like /. - think mpeg.
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OMFG! I was just about to start reading this article, and lo and behold, what do I see but an ad for, um, brace yourselves, Microsoft Visual Studio .Net. I shit you not. Doubleclick has to be the biggest slut in the current universe.
I put one of these on my wang, and to my amazement, all it showed was a picture of CowboyNeal's pretty mouth.
i did this with my digital camera... i'm not saying i'm the first to do so, but i've had it up for a little while.. they're really fun videos.. check them out on my website
:D
the videos are located here
i have a few more.. i could email them to you or something if you really really like the two up there
i've got two videos up on my site of the same thing.. i've had them up for a bit.. i'm not saying i'm the first to do this.. but they're fun videos none the less...
Since I started using Mozilla's built-in popup blocking I haven't seen any of their delightful ads. It's good to hear they're still around.
Game... blouses.
Where the hell is the picture of the babe in the black cocktail dress, the scantilly clad bikini vixen? We all know this is what you get to see when you use an X10. And don't try to defend this, hiding behind some lame logic saying those kinds of women don't attend nitro R/C racing. I know they must, i know they must.
have you checked out the specs on these cars? they've modded them out more than i've done to my REAL car (yes,i drive an import [240SX]. no, i'm not a ricer. yes, all the parts i've put on are performance so far [swaybars, springs/adjustable struts, intake/headers/exhaust, chip, and matching cams])...they've probably spent more money, too...
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
I have an electric TC3, which is the same size, but runs on 6 1.2 volt NiCad or NiMH batteries. It's a pretty cool sport.
Always going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
X10 has tech support. Moreover, at least as far as this article implies, X10 has decent tech support! Hell with cameras, maybe these folks should write an OS. . .
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
I made a short film which is an homage to some of the great car chase scenes, except using only RC cars. It's called MiniMall Security. It's at diabolicalfilms.com.
As you can see in the barR/C videos, the sense of speed when you film a car that low to the ground is incredible.
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how fast was the car clocked??
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My brother recently (a couple of months ago) put together his Nitro RS/4, and the thing is pretty damn fast. We started with a couple of Micro RS/4 kits (the 1/18th scale), battery powered all wheel drive cars. The micros are fun but your batteries start dying right away and you only have peak performance for a short while. Of course, a 6 cell pack makes for some fun. My uncle actually got us turned on to these, and his 1/18th scale micro with a nice engine and a one-way front diff. (dare I list the rest of the mods??)... well, he gets the little car up over 45mph. I will leave his big 1/8th scale cars out of this.
My brother has been wanting to strap a camera on his Nitro, and has been looking for a good way to do it. I recommended against hooking the Canon GL-2 to the top. I jokingly suggested an X10, but am surprised, not to see it done, but to see it on the front page of
I better shut up now! -J
Fire in the sky
I used to race RC drag cars. The "Top Fuel" class used to hit 100 mph in 120 feet. On batteries.
"I drank what?" - Socrates
During the .Com boom, we used to do this at work, with X10 camaras. We could sit in one room, and drive our cars arond the whole office. It was really interesting the amount of crap we could get away with.
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if I thought it was new worthy I would have posted my own. I did this a long time ago with my R/C jeep. I even did it one step cooler. I raced by ONLY watching the TV. The jeep I have is an electric one so it didn't go so fast. The guys with the fast gas powered engines laughed at my pace. One of them let me move my camera to his car - then he slowed quite a bit after his billionth crash. It is a lot different driving from the drivers point of view vs from a grand stand.
"If you are on fire you can just stop, drop, and roll. If you fall into Lava you are just dead." - my 5yr old daughter
I'm just wondering why he left the camera in the bulky casing?
I've pulled one apart and rewired the AV/power to a longer cable so the small lense could be mounted apart from the bulky base.
The transmitter itself is a single board with a low profile radio/shield.
The antenna is a 2.4 Ghz directional. It can easily be replaced with an omni directional antana that will give a better transmition as well as lessen the impact on areodynamics.
The batery pack consists of a small circuit board, the clips for 4xAA batteries, and a big bulky case. A lot of space could be saved by getting rid of the big ugly case.
I think it may be possible to mount the whole camera behind the windshield.
Just a thought.
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More exciting is putting cameras on airplanes. Seeing something you are unable to see yourself is more exciting than the view from 2 inches off the ground.
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I don't really understand the obsession with fast RC cars. A couple of years ago, I built an HPI Super Nitro kit and ran it around the parking lot. It was fun. A few weeks later, I threw a $70 exhaust system on it, which increased the performance dramatically. Unfortunately, the damned thing became so fast that it was just about undrivable. Even in the biggest of parking lots, you could only run it for a few seconds before you had to cut power and turn to avoid a curb. With all this new speed, my car went through tires like mad and every crash was much more expensive.
IMHO, R/C is a crazy money pit. The more you spend, the more you have to spend. I ended up giving the car to a friend when I could no longer justify spending $30 on repairs every time I drove it.
Does anyone other than X10.com make a camera like this? I will never purchase from those clowns again. A couple of years ago, I tried to buy their X10 starter kit. I placed an order but they let me go for over a month without any communications before I finally called to enquire about the status my purchase (which I then cancelled).
One of the planes has a steerable camera (radio controled also).
- Yann
Very cool... and right on topic.
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