One of the best toys that I had as a child was a radio controlled car. While I had a number of toy R/C cars like you find on the shelf at Wal-Mart, when I was 11 or 12, I received my first 1/10 scale kit R/C truck for Christmas (Joe was actually the one to get me hooked on them).
It was a Traxxas Hawk (that was so long ago that it doesn’t even show up as a “legacy model” on the Traxxas website). As R/C car kits went back then, it was pretty much a piece of crap. Later, I would get an Associated RC10 (buggy) and an RC10T (truck). I put all of my money and all of my Christmas and birthday lists went into R/C cars and trucks for a number of years. As a bonus, I learned quite a bit about algebra, geometry and physics without even realizing it. Ah, those were the days.
These were the memories stirred up when I saw the above RACER demo that Malte Jahmlich over at sputnic.tv put dreamed up. Jahmlich and his pals put together an R/C car system that’s controlled by a video game racing console, and a track that mimics Wipeout. The greatest thing about the concept is that you control the car from a first person perspective thanks to a wireless video camera mounted on the car. It beats the heck out of the dirt tracks Joe and I tried to build for our R/C cars way back when.
Bravo, gentlemen. Bravo.
[via CrunchGear]
