Ogier

[Ogier]

Nup, much older than the Robert Jordan fad, but sadly he published before I selected it as a nick, so I can’t claim rights 🙂 It’s got nothing to do with Trees either 🙂

thanks for the details, 50kph is pretty good.

[Ogier]

Looks like fun – what size/brand engine does it have?

Is that a lot of toe in on the rears? It’s so visible I’d think it’s 10 degrees or something! 🙂

Are these things at all quick? I’ve not seen one in the flesh yet.

Cheers! Graham.

[Ogier]

Really? Dang I thought it would – the iwaver radios look like any other RC radio.

I better retract what I said before then.

[Ogier]

That’s really cool.

But you didn’t look left & right before crossing the road (Driveway).
If you want night vision, you can try adding a bunch of infra red LEDs – the CMOS sensor in the camera should pickup the infra red and give you a black & white image, and no one can see the light.

You’d nead a good number of LEDs though.

Cheers, Graham.

[Ogier]

You can use just about any 27Mhz AM transmitter with the iWaver circuit boards – even a Futaba 3PK if you want 🙂

EDIT: Correction – betty.k says that you can’t. I was making an assumption above, not talking from experience. Sorry if any confusion or pain was caused.

[Ogier]

Could the smoke have been coming from the disintegrating chassis rather than the motor? 🙂

[Ogier]

Slot cars are cool – I prefer the older afx stuff when they had less magnets – much more fun. A friend and I actually had a good all round collection of AFX / Tyco slots (Tyco was the name I couldn’t remember). I must get in touch with him as he was making up a permanent track – if he does 4 lanes then I can chase his slot car with my iWaver 🙂

[Ogier]

And the new Mini body on the iWaver 02M must be a 1/12 scale! 🙂 http://www.iwaverusa.com/

[Ogier]

The fluoro yellow buggy with tank tracks is actually a slot car – Tomy AFX and another brand that I can’t remember right now have HO or 1/64 scale slot cars and the tracked car is from the other brand. They’re good fun to play with, on track handling is a little unusual but works well being a little slippery 🙂

Welcome, Dave.
I can’t help with ZZ, BCG etc, most of that went over my head, but I could have told you that iWaver made a clone of the first and second Mini-Z, I think legal trouble resulted in the 2nd one being called a Firelap 2.0. They’re just releasing the 3rd version which might be something new, I’m waiting to hear news about them.

I just picked up a 1st gen iWaver and it’s a good entry point into small electric RC. So far it’s pretty strong and it’s quick enough to give my cat a whooping down the hallway, just doesn’t have enough traction on the polished floor boards!

Ciao & enjoy the cars.
Graham.

[Ogier]

Cool! I checked the iwaver website and found this:

[Ogier]

Hi all, I’ll use this thread as an intro post 🙂

My name is Graham and I’ve had a 1/8 Nitro buggy for a few years now and first saw AusMicro being spammed across the other RC sites I frequented 🙂
I checked it out and learnt that Mini-zs existed, but that’s as far as it went.

Now this week, a bunch of us at work have bought an iWaver each and are having demolition derbies after hours. 😀

So I’ve signed up to learn modding tips, spare parts sources and especially I’d like to convert my iWaver to a 27MHz FM receiver to use with my old JR radio.

See you around!
Oggy.

[Ogier]

I’d consider an iWaver body with AusMicro.com badging … 😉

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