Comments on: radio controlled airplane from a micro r/c car http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:57:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Aerialproducts http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/comment-page-1/#comment-2852 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:18:57 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/#comment-2852 We can help you determine the right product for your needs, by answering the big questions like:- Should I use a blimp at a trade show? How large a blimp do I need to be seen from a half mile away? Should I use a point and shoot style camera or a Digital SLR? Do I use digital graphics on my RC blimp, or banner attachments?
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]]> By: Chris http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/comment-page-1/#comment-2842 Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:23:40 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/#comment-2842 “any length of aerial antenna” wont work as well as the right length. Theres a perfect dipole antenna length for every frequency. Search the net for “antenna calculator” to find the best length for your antenna. Also include “ham” or “amateur” “radio” in your search (it might help you find it). Also, if you transmit under .5 watts, I think its legal with the fcc. –.5 watts doesnt go too far. maybe a mile or so tops. Plus, your radio controlers dont identify themselves, thus it would be hard for them to catch you. But check on the FCC’s website to be SURE your legally transmittng. good luck!!! Dont transmit illegally because of me! oh yah, you can search the internet for antenna designs that will effectively increase your transmit power but still keep it down so its legal…. just a thought.

]]> By: CDE http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/comment-page-1/#comment-2841 Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:36:49 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/#comment-2841 Duct tape around a ethernet copper wire frame, with the instructions for something like the devron mod would be l33t….

]]> By: jason striegel http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/comment-page-1/#comment-2840 Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:38:39 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/#comment-2840 the page was moved to a new url. i’ve updated the link. check it out and get hacking!

]]> By: Peter http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/comment-page-1/#comment-2839 Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:47:51 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/#comment-2839 shutdown site , dead link

]]> By: RGB http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/comment-page-1/#comment-2838 Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:41:57 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/#comment-2838 Darn. Does anyone have a copy of the instructions for this project?

]]> By: Thrill http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/comment-page-1/#comment-2837 Thu, 27 Jan 2005 01:04:55 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/#comment-2837 Bandwidth exceeded. NOOOOOOOO!

]]> By: Robert http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/comment-page-1/#comment-2844 Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:26:23 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/#comment-2844 This hack could be quite dangerous. Those RC remotes are fairly unreliable and occupy a very congested frequency band. Someone with an RC car could come along and end up controlling your plane crashing it for you.

]]> By: foxops http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/comment-page-1/#comment-2843 Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:48:20 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/#comment-2843 OOPS!
“Bandwidth Limit Exceeded”

]]> By: torpor http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/comment-page-1/#comment-2845 Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:16:43 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/#comment-2845 yo, i can see it now, the ‘leet hacker/commando/terrorist of the future, scrapping open a box of last-almost-forgotten-empire-of-man-taiwan-special toy-store pallets, crates and crates of little bugs falling out of their by-then fully degraded-to-dust-on-disturbance plastic bubble-packs, rigging them up to self-made isotopic-degenerating power sources with the heads, ripped off a daily harvest from a hip-side protein-pack grasshopper-bottle colony, lassoed to the primitive logic chip of ‘last-era-man car-toy’, cast off into a distant red dawn wind, assembled out of the ruins of earth, fighting era-long nano-harvesting battles with neighboring techno-fascist tribes, somewhere over the horizon ..

or, i could just be all “pfftt, whatever!”, let the chinese do my ‘DIY’ for me, and buy a $5 RC glider, instead of a $5 ‘min-RC’ and some balsa, yo ..

]]> By: Greg http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/comment-page-1/#comment-2847 Sun, 23 Jan 2005 07:27:39 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/#comment-2847 thanks that depron wing thing is pretty neat… Maybe I can substitute depron with duct tape… I wonder if I can build something that’ll fly from duct tape? hmm…

]]> By: John http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/comment-page-1/#comment-2846 Sun, 23 Jan 2005 07:09:27 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/#comment-2846 How weird, I found the same page yesterday. Looks like fun, I can’t wait to go harvest the local toy shops and build a few things with these. I have some BitChar-G cars that I picked up in Japan a few years ago ( months before they broke big time here) and have had gobs of fun with them. I like the idea of a proportional control hack vis microcontroler. Very clever.

]]> By: Brandon http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/comment-page-1/#comment-2849 Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:16:02 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/#comment-2849 here is how to make a cheap wing without buying the airplane kit. Someone could surly hack the r/c car only and turn it into one of these things.

http://www.webx.dk/rc/depron.htm

]]> By: thomas http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/comment-page-1/#comment-2848 Sun, 23 Jan 2005 04:55:26 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/#comment-2848 “Unfortunatly I haven’t been able to get good range with any of the cheap (real cheap) models I have around the house already.”

I thought this at first as well, but he has a LOT of information in the article on improving the range.

Very well written article by a well informed person. However the article is quite old.

]]> By: Greg http://hackaday.com/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/comment-page-1/#comment-2850 Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:17:44 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2005/01/22/radio-controlled-airplane-from-a-micro-rc-car/#comment-2850 pretty nifty.
Unfortunatly I haven’t been able to get good range with any of the cheap (real cheap) models I have around the house already. good food for thought, I can prolly think of a few uses for the little buggers now that my brain is turning on it.

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