A LEGO Technic different RC
08-08-2015, 04:14 AM
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A LEGO Technic different RC
Hi to all!
First of all, sorry for my bad english, I'm Italian
Then: I'm new of the RC world, when I was a child I had the passion of cars and RC, then growing the passion is never gone away... and in this summer, I made some ideas watching on youtube the "power functions" kit of LEGO. I love LEGO and I have a lot of them at home, i find so funny the idea of "create whatever you want ad give life to it", so I would like to try it!
Unfortunately, there is a problem: the LEGO kit costs a lot: looking on ama$on, I might spend more than 100€ for the basic pices, so I would like to know if it is possible to use "common RC pices" (i mean steering engine, IR receiver, engine and controller) on a LEGO Techinc, spending less money and having a faster RC
I have a little Helicopter, a cartronic C 709 http://cartronic.eu/de/Ferngesteuert...elicopter-C709 with a double-channel controller: can I "recicle" it to spare money?
Thanks a lot!
CK96
First of all, sorry for my bad english, I'm Italian
Then: I'm new of the RC world, when I was a child I had the passion of cars and RC, then growing the passion is never gone away... and in this summer, I made some ideas watching on youtube the "power functions" kit of LEGO. I love LEGO and I have a lot of them at home, i find so funny the idea of "create whatever you want ad give life to it", so I would like to try it! Unfortunately, there is a problem: the LEGO kit costs a lot: looking on ama$on, I might spend more than 100€ for the basic pices, so I would like to know if it is possible to use "common RC pices" (i mean steering engine, IR receiver, engine and controller) on a LEGO Techinc, spending less money and having a faster RC
I have a little Helicopter, a cartronic C 709 http://cartronic.eu/de/Ferngesteuert...elicopter-C709 with a double-channel controller: can I "recicle" it to spare money?
Thanks a lot!
CK96
08-08-2015, 08:27 AM
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Hey CK! Welcome! Cheers from California!
Have you looked at the prices of basic RC parts? 100 Euros isn't going to get you much. You may be better off buying the Lego kit. At least you'll know they will work together properly. If you are REALLY SKILLED in electronics and figuring out how things work, you might be able to do something with that heli, but 150mah in battery power isn't much, and that motor in there has to be really small and doesn't have much torque, so you wouldn't be able to do much. Sell the copter to a buddy, and use that money towards the Lego power kit. That's my opinion.
BTW, your English is great! Helluva lot better than my Italian! LOL (which is non-existant)
Have you looked at the prices of basic RC parts? 100 Euros isn't going to get you much. You may be better off buying the Lego kit. At least you'll know they will work together properly. If you are REALLY SKILLED in electronics and figuring out how things work, you might be able to do something with that heli, but 150mah in battery power isn't much, and that motor in there has to be really small and doesn't have much torque, so you wouldn't be able to do much. Sell the copter to a buddy, and use that money towards the Lego power kit. That's my opinion.
BTW, your English is great! Helluva lot better than my Italian! LOL (which is non-existant)
08-09-2015, 10:04 AM
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well if you are good at designing, and modifying you can do a few things with legos RC wise
get a standard cheap 2.4ghz radio a servo, a cheap 10A ESC from china. in USD it would probably cost $40 for the electronics(not counting batteries). I dunno what the lego motors now pull, but 22-24 years ago the technic motors used 6 AA's.
for batteries as its lego you can use a NiMh stick pack which would blow anything that they were meant for away in power.
that heli kit I wouldn't bother with for how much time it would take to figure out how it works(as most cheap kits have proprietary parts) you could buy a already made piece for cheap, and will work way better.
As for other RC parts like a motor... honestly with the motors in any single RC I got if I mounted them in a lego made RC I'd expect to melt, and strip gears left and right that is if the thing didn't fly apart from the toque twist from the motors.
makes me wish I didn't lose a lot of parts over the years from my old technic set as I could have made a killer RC out of it.
get a standard cheap 2.4ghz radio a servo, a cheap 10A ESC from china. in USD it would probably cost $40 for the electronics(not counting batteries). I dunno what the lego motors now pull, but 22-24 years ago the technic motors used 6 AA's.
for batteries as its lego you can use a NiMh stick pack which would blow anything that they were meant for away in power.
that heli kit I wouldn't bother with for how much time it would take to figure out how it works(as most cheap kits have proprietary parts) you could buy a already made piece for cheap, and will work way better.
As for other RC parts like a motor... honestly with the motors in any single RC I got if I mounted them in a lego made RC I'd expect to melt, and strip gears left and right that is if the thing didn't fly apart from the toque twist from the motors.
makes me wish I didn't lose a lot of parts over the years from my old technic set as I could have made a killer RC out of it.
