gazzarose
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Hi,
I built a DT03 buggy over Xmas with the 'help' of my 4ryr old son. The build was good fun (apart from the stickers, I hate cutting out stickers!!, Please Tamiya precut them!) but the driving was even more fun. Its the first dabble I've had with an RC car for about 10 years, and even then it was only a TT01 that I did a bit of car park drifting with, and going off road and doing little jumps took me back to the Traxxas Nitro Hawk I had when I was a kid. My boys excitement was the best though, its something new for him and he was keen to have a go. He sort of figured out the steering, but unless I controlled the power he was just flat out, usually in to something solid! The transmitter I've got is a basic 2.4G one that only has the bare essential functions. The 2.4G stuff, even at this level, is a revelation though, no more crystals! I'm looking for a way to be able to limit the throttle so that even if he goes all out its only slow. Is there anything I could plug in between the receiver and the ESC to add dual rate? My radio has got a 3rd channel so if that could be used to switch on/off the dual rate then all the better, but thats not all that important. In the long term if he gets in to driving it I may get another car for myself so we can 'play' together and I'll probably get a decent transmitter for that, but a £150+ transmitter isn't really something I want to have in the hands of a 4yr old, so if I can do something for the time being with my current transmitter that would be great. I had though about using an arduino, but my programming skills don't extend far past making an led flash so something ready made and preferably cheap would be ideal.
Thanks
Gareth
I built a DT03 buggy over Xmas with the 'help' of my 4ryr old son. The build was good fun (apart from the stickers, I hate cutting out stickers!!, Please Tamiya precut them!) but the driving was even more fun. Its the first dabble I've had with an RC car for about 10 years, and even then it was only a TT01 that I did a bit of car park drifting with, and going off road and doing little jumps took me back to the Traxxas Nitro Hawk I had when I was a kid. My boys excitement was the best though, its something new for him and he was keen to have a go. He sort of figured out the steering, but unless I controlled the power he was just flat out, usually in to something solid! The transmitter I've got is a basic 2.4G one that only has the bare essential functions. The 2.4G stuff, even at this level, is a revelation though, no more crystals! I'm looking for a way to be able to limit the throttle so that even if he goes all out its only slow. Is there anything I could plug in between the receiver and the ESC to add dual rate? My radio has got a 3rd channel so if that could be used to switch on/off the dual rate then all the better, but thats not all that important. In the long term if he gets in to driving it I may get another car for myself so we can 'play' together and I'll probably get a decent transmitter for that, but a £150+ transmitter isn't really something I want to have in the hands of a 4yr old, so if I can do something for the time being with my current transmitter that would be great. I had though about using an arduino, but my programming skills don't extend far past making an led flash so something ready made and preferably cheap would be ideal.
Thanks
Gareth