12/01/2025

Fan Car v2

After my experiments with the first fan car, I was really impressed with it’s speed on good surfaces (laminate, thin carpet), but it was entirely dependent on a smooth surface due to it’s limited (front) or no (rear) suspension. For the second version, I thought I may as well start with an already competent RC […]

12/01/2025

Fan Car v1

Built around November 2023 The Fan Car was inspired by unlimited Tamiya Mini-4WD cars I saw on YouTube, some of which use 8520 coreless motors and small drone propellers for propulsion. I built this simple RC car to experiment with using propellers, and these motors are quite inexpensive. I had initially planned to use additional […]