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A Full-Size Remote-Control Car

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the standard-passtime-out-west dept.

Ant writes "A video clip (Windows Media Player required) the construction, operation, and demolition. It is a real-life remote control car with Knight Rider references!" The video works fine for me in xine (though sound dropped out for a bit). This car is not yet ready for the Las Vegas run, but if they hook up with some AI reseachers ...

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  1. scrapheap challenge by Rcknight · · Score: 4, Informative

    they did this on scrapheap challenge (uk equivalent of junkyard wars) too, bit they had to fight each other, theirs seem like a bit of a kludge compared to this one though :)

  2. Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    in case someone needs a mirror.

  3. How far behind are the U.S again?? by Conor+Turton · · Score: 5, Informative

    Jeezuz. WE've had this for years in the UK. There's even a TV series called "Combat Cars" where they take a car, turn it into remote control, add armour and weapons then battle them in a "Robot Wars" type competition.

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  4. "media player required"? and mirror by brejc8 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It plays fine with mplayer.
    And by the way the mirror is at the DMP
    Please add your own, my computer cant take too much.

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  5. Re:It's been done by beebware · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oooh - I pity their webhosts then. The redirect to port 19638 and /webhost/rollout shows that the site is running the Ensim control panel software which only mails our bandwidth warnings - it doesn't automatically suspend high bandwidth sites or provide other methods of throttling. This means that that shared server (which is the common enviornment for Ensim to run in) is probably waaay overloaded at this moment and many many many customers are suffering.

  6. Re:Cars UI by OldMiner · · Score: 2, Informative
    ? I wouldn't it's not like an airplane where there's a chance of escape or like a train that pretty much stays on its track. What if the stick malfunctioned? You would get thrown off the road, very unpleasing.

    Call me strange, but I think it doesn't take terrribly long to pull a 747 into a tail spin. Once there, I'm pretty sure it's hard to pull it out of it, there's no manual fix, and there's slim odds of escape. That said, I've absolutely never heard of a plane going into a tail spin due to its electronics malfunctioning. Something about precision design and redundancy maybe?

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  7. 100mbit mirror, anyone? by iosmart · · Score: 2, Informative

    i dont think anyone else has one currently going...but here's mine: http://www.pchopper.com/mirror/RCCar_video_new.wmv .zip

  8. That was our car! by JDFilms · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's great to see so many people talking about our car. And thanks for putting a link to my page instead of directly to the video file.
    http://www.jdfab.com/dp2/rccar.htm
    The old one is down and a new smaller file has been uploaded, we have had over 50,000 hits in the last two days and about 300gb of transfer on the server... Crazy...

    It sounds like some people aren't sure why we destroyed the car after spending time to build it. Well basically we wanted to build one for a couple of years, and the goal was to do something fun and crazy with it so I have good footage to put in my next desert racing video, Dezert People - Second Lap. We built a new car from a 1987 Celica for the TechTV show, The Screen Savers, techtv.com. See the Interview on the link from my site. and later we plan to build a second car so we have two to play with. Basically its all about good footage for our desert racing videos. www.dezertpeople.com

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