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Kids and cheap RC cars is a bad mix. In reality kids cannot control these things. They end up slamming the car into things, and keep pressing “forward”, even when the poor vehicle is facing a wall.
With the purpose of preparing you for some nifty programming tricks in the next episode of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, in this episode I’ll you how to make a cheap RC car automatically stop before it hits an object.
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Great video! Looking forward to the code review, if you decided to do it.
at first I was like “your ruining the point and fun of an R/C car”, then when you flipped it I spit out my coffee because that was hilarious, then when I saw your next project, I went “woah, you just turned a cheap toy into a follow robot, that is way cool!”
The direct link to the video is wrong, there’s an extra ‘.m4v’ at the end of the URL.
this is great!! thanks for even showing your code. i’m looking forward to the video of how you coded those car to race each other
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