If I am a 22 year old girl and just bought a remote control helicopter for myself and when I told my friends, they laughed, so was it very childish of me to buy it, and should I not have bought it?
I felt ridiculous for getting one and I'm eighteen. When I sat down and thought about it however, I realized several things.1) remote controlled things have always fascinated me - I would play with my great grandfather's racing cars whenever I went over there, even if my sister wasn't there to play with.2) My uncle has several that he plays with and he's nearing his forties, his wife also enjoys remote controlled things and she's only a couple years younger than he is. - if they can play without shame, then so can I.3) Riley Poole solved a century old puzzle, found a city of gold as a matter of fact, by using a remote controlled helicopter to find a vital clue concerning the location of a vital clue. Admittedly, he's a bit of a nerd, but hey - I'm nerdy, and I'm not ashamed of it. I love it.It's just like Simon Pegg says."Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It's basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating."Words to live by, in my opinion - there aren't near enough geeks in the world. Don't be afraid to love what you love - if your friends laugh, ignore them on that matter and find a group you can relate to on that matter. Never apologize for being yourself, no matter what age you are.
What are the name of RC helicopter parts?
Compare these with a slightly simpler illustration of a full-scale helicopter's components:The greater detail in the two RC helicopter diagrams is good because it shows how the main rotor blades actually are moved. These two pictures show the real things better:You might enjoy reading through this Web site: DASL - Flight Training - Voicheck. It has a lot of useful information on RC helicopters in general.
How do you fly a remote controlled helicopter?
“Quadcopters” and the like have two big advantages. First, the nature of their design largely eliminates the torque issues that make flying both RC and real helicopters so difficult. Second, they tend to be very stable by nature, and the sophistication of the latest designs is such that they largely take care of their own stability, leaving the pilot free to just concentrate on making it go up, down, left, right, forward and backward. Pretty cool.By contrast, flying any true “helicopter” design that incorporates a main rotor and a tail rotor to counter the main rotor’s torque can be like patting your head and rubbing your belly at the same time (at best). I think flying an RC helicopter well is an order of magnitude tougher than flying a real one, simply because you can feel and react to what’s happening to the latter instead of trying to stay ahead of everything based on external observation and experience.This Web site offers a pretty honest take on the challenges associated with keeping an RC helicopter in the air without crashing it: How To Fly RC Helicopters. If you’re really interested in beating your head against that particular wall, it’s a good place to start.
What to do with a broken RC Helicopter?
Interesting. I didn't see your heli desroyed. Helicopter is most difficult to repair than an winged aircraft. If you have some skills you'll be able to finish it. But be careful when making new blades. You must know the resistance of the material to avoid them to skip ( may cause a serious hurt). If the engine is good you could try to make a running boat. I don't know if your heli is electric or piston- engine powered. I make aircraft models, and I build their fuselage of fiber- glass. If you have a part (one side) of the body of the helicopter you'll be able to make a mold (for the other half) and make it of fiber-glass. I build the mine this way. It takes me long time, but I am proud to say that- it is my design. You can make your own design too, modifying the heli a little, but keep the original weight. Although it is "piracy" do clone it, you may copy it for repair, I think. I use sole one coat of 450 gr/m2 fiberglass fabric, and polyester resin.The lighter the better. Good luck! Brazil. Henrique 8:45AM
Can I use an RC car receiver for a quadcopter?
if you dont mind seriously limited control, ie, anything more than up and down and maybe yaw, sure.you can have all the props tilted to provide forward movement. constant forard movement, like a plane. yaw is steering.so with a throttle and steering, you can fly…in a limited manner. no roll or pitch available. no hovering.then you can just let the auto stabiliser do the hard bit of keeping it level.it sounds pretty stupid though. maybe fun if you know what you are doing, otherwise. stupid.never tried running my flight control from just two channels. not sure it would even let me turn it on! now i have to have a go… probably have to modify the code and reflash it to not throw errors with no roll or pitch control.generally, you need four channels minimum. five if you have a auto level switch or a controller that requires fifth channel to even arm the motors.some RC car controllers do have a third channel. generally for a reverse control on nitro cars. its either on or off. no proportional control. could use that for arming/autolevel. useless for anything else.the receiver will take all three channels from a transmitter on the same frequency though.multi channel radio setups are cheap.noone wants their old MHz ones anymore. they give better range, can penetrate trees and walls, and are generally built tough. no glitching. no silly computer crap to program. just switch them on and fly. the only issue on quads is that the aerials are about a metre long and cant be wound up. so you have this wire dangling out the back. do some dead stick falls followed by full throttle recoveries and you chop your aerial off. oops.i have a box of 2.4GHz radios here. all dead from one thing or another. waste of damn money. some are DAMN EXPENSIVE.yet my 40 yr old futaba and JR work flawlessly. why would i want another GHz system?
What's the best mini RC helicopter to buy?
RC aircraft has been my hobby since 2004. I have tried several mini-helis. For beginners my favorite is the mCX by e-flite. For intermediate level, the mSR, also by e-flite. These are not toys like the kind you will find at Target. They are hobby-grade and typically $120-$150. For that money you get a helicopter that is ready-to-fly, actually works, is actually controllable, and actually teaches you to fly. You can read tons of forum posts about these and other helis at rcgroups.com -- enjoy! it is a great hobbyUpdate 11/7/2010: I recently moved up to a 450-size heli. After consulting a friend who has 8 helis, I got the Mini Titan. It is very easy to build and setup, and it is very stable. Inexpensive too. Flies great stock. Parts are cheap. It hovered straight on the maiden flight; I was impressed. People have found it more stable than the Trex 450 (see this review: http://www.helireviews.com/thund... ).Recently, I met a guy flying an EXI 450. The base kit is only $30. It looked and flew great. I'm thinking about getting one of these too.
What prevents RC toys from interfering with one another?
With lower quality products, which generally operate in the sub 100 MHz range, there is nothing preventing radio interference. This can be seen with cheap R/C car controllers, which can take control of the another car if they are operating on the same frequency. When these same frequencies are used for more hobby grade products, especially in long range R/C plane groups, users generally have to coordinate who can operate on which frequency, however their transmitters and receivers allow them change their frequencies.Once you move up to higher frequencies, such as the widely used 2.4GHz (used for r/c cars, drones, and wifi), things get more interesting. I may be wrong about the exact implementation, but from my understanding, the frequencies of this speed can be divided into sub frequencies, and then the transmitter and receiver will rapidly, and randomly alternate between these sub frequencies together. The end result is that there is any interference on any specific sub frequency is short enough that it can be filtered out, and the primary signal carries on, mostly uninterrupted.
I tried to build a remote control boat but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?
I'm guessing the plastic container is your “hull"?If so thats where the problem is. The shape of it is not going to allow it to travel strait. A normal boat usually curves up at the front to allow the hull to ride up on the water and reduce drag at the front of the hull, having a square edge like your container lets the leading edge dig in and create drag.Also the motor/prop isnt square to the hull, vertically or horizontally. This will turn the boat no matter what hull you use as the thrust isnt square to the hull. Also the way the motor is mounted, most of the force is being applied to the bow, where ideally it should be to the transom.And your COG is to far forward. This combined with the thrust angle also forces the bow down into the water.There are about 5–6 more issues I can see, but these are the main one effecting the way the hull moves. A rudder will help counteract the turning, but it will never handle properly, it will always turn right tighter than a left hand turn.Boats, especially rc boats need a very carefully designed layout to run properly, thrust must be inline with the hull, COG must be correct to get the hull to “plane", hull needs a gradual transfer from bow to bottom to reduce drag, especially for an air propped hull.Here is my first attempt at scratch building a RC airboat:air boat 9x4.5 4SThe COG is to far forward causing it to bury to bow and making control difficult, but the thrust angle and hull shape are correct. Just one little thing is enough to throw the expected response out the window.Just because I can, here is a clip of one of my favourite FE boats, clocked at 89mph by radar later the same day with a few set up tweaks.Pirate- Early Testing