What is a good electronic radio controls car for someone new to rc cars. ?

Question

I'm looking for a 200-600$ radio control car that can be modified if i want to make it better. Pleas no tycoo or anything like that, Thanks

Answer 1

It's good that you have that much money to spend cause you'll get great quality. You can spend lot's of money upgrading most r/c models with tons of after market performance products. Take a look at www.traxxas.com Their electric models are the E-Bandit $185, E-Rustler $185, E-Stampede $185, Higher priced ones are the E-Maxx, Slash, E-Revo and soon the E-brushless Revo, The E-Summit is coming out in Jan. and it has working LED tail, head, and running lights for at night and that's really cool. If you spend $185, then you get a "wound" electric motor and you need to buy a Ni-Mi battery (3000 to 4600 mAh for $30 to $60 plus a charger and get a better quality one, they are $50 to $150. The best electrics are the ones with brushless motors and they are much more efficient and run faster and longer. The Li-Po batteries are best for power and duration, but more expensive. If you get say an E-Rusltler VXL brushless model with a www.maxamps.com 6000mAh Li-po $130 or so, then it will do about 50mph and last long. You also must get a Li-Po battery charger. HPI makes great cars/trucks too, www,hpiracing.com . I have the E-Savage and like it, but it's not brushless. www.horizonhobby.com is a great r/c dealer and mfg. Welcome to an awesome hobby, but careful, it's highly addictive !! Hope this helps and good luck.

Answer 2

javaME is where you want to be. Get NetBeans with the JavaME plugin. ME is a subset of Java Standard Edition (SE). There are assembled components that code can control. One of the neat ones is Phidgets, a USB connection to a servo motor. Lego MindStorms sells kits or components. After that, we are building our own microcontrollers. You end up with a closet full of electronic parts, more useful than old Macs, but too valuable to discard. OpenCV is the Intel C/C++ library for Vision. Search YouTube for OpenCV. But, by far and large, java is the most productive robotics in labratory configurating. Hey, good luck. Some of my favorite classes was doing this stuff. Japan leads the way however and America doesn't seem interested nor funds this stuff any more.

Answer 3

traxxas E-Maxx, check it out, 4 wheel drive, it's even water proof.