Archive for the 'RC Cars' Category

Western Slope Challenge at the High Desert RacePlace

Radio controlled car meets are becoming more and more common of late, with the scale getting larger every time. By scale, obviously we’re not talking about the scale of the cars, we’re talking about the scale of events. The cars remain quite small.
This weekend just gone saw the Western Slope Challenge at the High Desert […]

Things on Wheels trailer

A new radio controlled car video game is coming to Xbox 360. Things On Wheels, where players can race RC cars on Xbox LIVE Arcade promises to afford game players the opportunity to control fully functioning RC cars across many different environments, playing directly against players from all over the world.

Herve Nedelec, Art Director of […]

RC Car v Mini GP

The gorgeous Vicky Butler Henderson (mmmmm) met her match in a bunch of radio controlled car nerds when she took them on in a race. Vicky was driving a Mini GP while the spotty kid who’d obviously never spoken to a girl before (let alone one quite like her) drove his radio controlled car around […]

Kid plays Mario theme on bottles with radio controlled car

Is this one of the greatest things you’ve ever seen, or one of the most sad?
Have you ever thought how many bottles of water would I require, and how much water would I need in each bottle, in order to play the mario theme if I then drive a radio controlled car along the side […]

Lewis Hamilton and his radio controlled car roots

If ever you needed a shining example of how playing with radio controlled cars can be beneficial to you in later life you need to look no further than Britain’s Lewis Hamilton. The multi millionaire (yes, already) Formula 1 driver for Maclaren made his first steps in motor racing, not through karting, but through radio […]

RC James Bond Aston Martin

It’s the ultimate car, the Aston Martin DBS from Casino Royale. It’s also the owner of the world record for the number of flips performed in a car when they rolled in seven times during the film. Hey, if you’re gonna break a world record, what better way to do it than by using an […]

Women gets hit in face by RC Car

Women and cars don’t mix, everyone knows that. Cyclists and cars really don’t mix. Women and nerds are natural enemies. When you get a woman, on a bike, cycling around a park full of radio controlled car enthusiasts. It was always going to end badly.
This woman should have stayed at home
You need to […]

Armed, sentient robot, or glorified radio controlled car?

If you’ve ever watched TV footage of war zones or seen bomb disposal experts detonating suspicious looking packages and cars, chances are you’ll have see what many people refer to as an intelligent battle robot. A robot used by the police and the military to access the areas deemed far too dangerous for any human […]

Playing with radio controlled cars keeps kids off the streets

The Mildred Hunter Community Center in Valdosa has started up its own radio controlled car club, which it hopes will help to teach the children valuable lessons about life.
The kids involved in the car club meet up two times during the week and on weekends to practise their car racing skills, and to race against […]

Man turns building RC cars from hobby to business

Jim Walker began building radio controlled cars back in 2003 as a hobby. It quickly developed into a Saturday job and has since become a full time occupation with a factory based in an 8,000-square-foot building, near Washington Township School and employing five full time workers.
Not bad for a hobby mucking about with toy cars.
“I […]