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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let's see them actually build an rc car or something simple

[–] hector 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Four wheels and a motor. How much more simple do you want?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Two motors, a battery and a radio receiver minimum

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

You can do with a single motor. You don't have to power both axles

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Don't need a radio receiver either. Plenty of old RC cars were wired.

Source: Grew up poor; all my RC cars were not remote controlled. 😭

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Except "RC" literally stands for "remote controlled".

What you had were uncontrolled toy cars.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It absolutely is. The first TV remotes were wired to the TV. Source: am old.

Here's an example of a wired cable TV remote. Remote meant you didn't need to get up to change the channel. Or for a car, it means you could walk behind it instead of pushing it manually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

They were certainly controlled. They just weren't radio controlled. C cars instead of RC cars. lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Aah. Those things. I remember those things.

The way you described it, sounded like the cars didn't have controls. My brain was too tired to put it together with memories that far back.

Thanks for the clarity. Be well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Remote controlled rather than radio controlled. If one wanted to get particular a lot of cheap RC where/are done by IR control, which makes them pretty well useless outdoors, same with TV remotes, but it's still remote controlled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Plenty of old RC cars were wired.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Two motors. One to power one to steer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I had an RC car as a kid that didn’t have steering. When it reversed, it turned left. That was the only directional control you had. I don’t know if it only had one motor, but I imagine it did.

[–] bzz 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Backup to turn one way was how they worked when I was a kid, but the also used a long cord instead of RF.

[–] hector 2 points 10 months ago

The fact y’all are having this conversation proves my point. It’s not self-evident lol. And there’s room for progress & innovation & creativity etc…