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[Kato RC Publishing Article #38] To the Skies for $10—The Man Who Built a Transmitter with an ESP32, His 3 Crashes, and 1 Awakening

"I looked at the price of standard RC transmitters and didn't want to buy anything." The project log posted on Hackaday.io begins with this single line. The author is an anonymous individual. They ...
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[Kato RC Publishing Article #35] 20,000 Yen, KiCAD, and a Single Soldering Iron—The Era of Open-Source RC Cars and Drones Built from Scratch by Individuals

Don't buy an RC car. Or, to be precise, "don't buy a mass-produced one." The year is 2026. Drawing circuit diagrams in KiCAD, ordering PCBs from PCBGOGO, flashing firmware to an ESP32, and printing a ...
Hackaday

555 timer

Over on YouTube [Andrew Neal] has a Function Generator Build for Beginners. As beginner videos go this one is fairly comprehensive. [Andrew] shows us how to build a square-wave generator on a ...
MotorBiscuit

Rocket-Boosted RC SR-71 Blackbird Hits 124 MPH Before Crashing Hard

The actual SR-71 Blackbird holds a speed record of Mach 3.3, set in 1976, that no aircraft has managed to surpass in the decades since. The RC version ...
MotorBiscuit

This 40mph 3D-Printed RC Car Now Lets You Drive It Like You’re Sitting Inside

The WR1 was already a genuinely impressive piece of work - a fully 3D-printable, 1/8-scale AWD rally chassis capable of hitting 40 mph, available for $35 ...