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Gallery, Projects and General => Neat Stuff => Topic started by: ddmckee54 on September 29, 2023, 02:08:28 PM
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I stumbled across this video a couple of days ago. The video is a short build video of modifying, in true MADmodder style, a diecast model tractor-trailer into an RC truck. With functional lights on both the tractor and the trailer. It looks like the tractor is controlled via a DIY Blue-tooth controller, and the trailer has an IR connection to the tractor for the trailer light control. The fact that he used a 1/150 scale die-cast model to do this is more like watch-making taken to another level.
Edit: The original link didn't work anymore, this one does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNQjjZvzaO0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNQjjZvzaO0)
I particularly liked the scene where he built his own control board by mounting a Surface Mount micro-controller chip upside down on a piece of normal perf-board. The rig's ability to make a 180 degree turn on a lap-top touch-pad at the end of the video was pretty impressive too.
Don