After yesterday’s fail­ure I brought a bit of extra duct tape and super glue and got the car back in work­ing order with the cam­era affixed to it nicely. I took it out again this after­noon to see if I could get the cam­era to sur­vive some small jumps off some staircases.

The good news is my duct tap­ing and super glu­ing worked. The cam­era didn ( Read more... )

The last time I attached a cam­era to my remote con­trolled car the major prob­lem, from my per­spect­ive, was that it was too bumpy, to the point of not being able to see any­thing, really. The solu­tion to this is two-​​fold:

1. Do it on pave­ment instead of snow.
2. Attach the cam­era more securely.

Since it’s been crazy nice lately - 4º for the past ( Read more... )

I’ve always loved remote con­trolled cars. I think at one point in ele­ment­ary school I even lis­ted R/​C car driver as a future pro­fes­sion of mine. While I did have some actu­ally really nice cars as a kid, one dream of mine which never came to fruition was to put a video cam­era on the car. It would be like being trans­por­ted to a mini­ature ( Read more... )