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Wipeout Recreated With an RC Car

Posted by Soulskill on from the eagerly-awaiting-his-xwing-project dept.

An anonymous reader writes "If you've owned any of Sony's PlayStation consoles then there's a good chance you've also played one of the Wipeout games. It's a high-speed racing game that helped make the PSOne popular, and it's now been recreated using a remote control car. The project is the idea of Malte Jehmlich. He decided to create a track out of cardboard reminiscent of the Wipeout tracks. He then hooked up a wireless camera to a remote control car, and modified the controller to be an arcade cabinet with a wheel and forward/reverse selector."

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  1. Re:Now if only by Xiph · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seriously dude....
    It's wipEout
    It doesn't lack any turtle shells, it lacks shields, turbo boosts, mines, shock waves, rockets or homing missiles
    also the craft isn't an odd triangularish shape

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  2. Re:This is looking good - Re:Hmm... by tom17 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How can the cars reed switch differentiate between magnets for boost and magnets for weapons? This is why he chose the LED for the weapons, so that you can differentiate between the two.

    Now with the RFID idea that someone had before, you have the option of even more different types of triggers (slow-down pad?), as well as the option of reconfiguring what pads do what. I think that's why the original poster mentioned RFID rather than a less flexible, but simpler, technology.

  3. Re:fun and money by TheLink · · Score: 2, Insightful

    0-60? It's the 60-0 in 0.1 sec where you really feel the difference between real life and simulation :).

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