by BARC 1 » Tue Dec 06, 2016 10:16 am
In my other hobby I used to supply onboard sound systems for RC tanks, so I am floating the idea for slot cars as well. I am putting together a protoype that I will use myself, because regardless of what the market wants, I want one. Wife is unhappy as she has had to listen to Maybach, Continental Radials, and Big Block Ford motors roaring in the basement as I built files for tank models. Last night I built a Porsche 917 file and was testing it, so she was thrilled. :angry-tappingfoot:
Anyway this will be built to work with a Carrera digital car and the concept also be used in analog as a stationary track side system. Onboard could be possible in analog but you would need to have a small lithium battery in the car, or a good self-charging capacitor to provide constant power to the sound board. Engine revs are synchronized with the car and you have down shifting blurps as well. I built the file so it has smooth transitions and customized with the reality that full throttle times are very short and the sound bytes have to be accessed many times in a typical slot car lap.
I read Fly did something onboard, but it must have failed as I have heard nothing about it since I got back into slot cars last year. Not sure of the sound quality or how reactive it was to throttle inputs. Not done right I can see it being only a novelty.
I am a Porsche guy so the 917 was must do for me, but I will build Ferrari, Ford, and most likely a Generic NASCAR as well.
As I mentioned I am doing this for my own needs, but thought I would ask to see if there is any interest from others. I will post a YOU tube video once I get it done. I am waiting on the prototype slot car control module to be delivered, and it is in the mail so I should be able to have this up and running before Christmas. I will spend a bit of time building sound files so when I do the video I can show a few different samples.
The sound boards themselves are programmable and the user can upload different files into each board, and change them at will. Kind of a novelty thing and probably more appealing to times when you are running on your own. More then two running at a time might be quite a racket.
I have customized all the sound files in both in RC and Bruces software as well, as sound is kind of my second hobby regardless of what the first one is.
Cheers
Dan
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BARC 1 on Sun Dec 18, 2016 5:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.