Albeit it’s slow to switch from forward to reverse – possible to stop the forces involved from stripping the car’s gearbox- something that has inevitably happened to the cheap RC cars I picked up (honestly they both sound terrible now!).Īt its top, unlimited speed the Real Racer makes short work of even the largest rooms, though the precise steering control still lets you weave and dodge around furniture with a remarkable amount of elegance. And the sheer brute force speed of both the steering and the car will let you pull off some impressive J-turns. ![]() It’s this accurate steering control which lets you reliably thread the Real Racer through small obstacles once you’ve had a little practice. It’s actually quite a marvel – albeit I suspect RC car enthusiasts will laugh at me here – to turn the car upside-down and observe just how precisely and quickly the front wheels respond to you turning the steering wheel. It has such a wide steering and speed range that you’re given trim knobs in order to limit them and give you some chance of mastering control over this tiny car. The Real Racer is quite a different proposition. This tiny ass RC car was £7.50 and it still has a 5mm badge on it ? /Rh0osyErms Usually you’ll find these buttons are just buttons on a game-controller-esque remote, and sometimes they’ll be disguised as a trigger/steering wheel style remote that manages to be equally as terrible. You’ll find most cheap RC cars forgo any kind of speed or steering nuance in lieu of just having buttons that steer at full lock and give you three speeds: GO. These cars were surprisingly detailed for the price, and they were quite fun to drive, but they were fairly clumsy and imprecise. Last year I picked up a couple of extremely cheap – £7.50 each – RC cars from Argos because we’d had a fresh laminate floor laid, no furniture in the house and I was keen to unleash RC havoc upon it. ![]() My review unit came with an 8GB card included, but the retail specs say you’ll have to bring your own, or record directly to your phone. It offers video recording and snapshots onto an internal microSD card and the required smartphone app includes a brief onboarding process to get you started. Real Racer is ideal for beginners who don’t want to delve into the deep and endless world of hobbyist RC cars. While FPV (first-person view) RC cars are nothing new, the Real Racer is competently put together and the WiFi approach to streaming video brings with it the possibility of video capture via an OBS Studio plugin (alas only for macOS and Windows). The green one was a bit rushed because I was dashing off to tend crying baby but here’s an example with better framing and focus.
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