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Create a Micro Spy Car
 08-25-2008 01:55 PM
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| Difficulty: | Super Easy! | ||||||
| Estimated Time: | < 5 minutes | ||||||
| Skills Required: | A Voyeuristic Wit! Ability to manipulate dual surface adhesive compound strips (double sided sticky tape for you layman lovers) |
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| Parts Required: | *Team Losi Micro-T R/C Car *Swann Black Hawk Wireless Color Camera with Built-in Battery and 2.4ghz Receiver *Double Sided Sticky Tape *A TV with RCA inputs of some sort |
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| Tools Required: | Organic Manipulators (Hands) Scissors |
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We have some pretty cool toys laying around in the bowels of the Trossen Robotics R&D department. Late last night I had a stroke of genius and combined two readily available electronic gadgets to make a VERY cool little toy, the Micro Spy Car. Afraid of Big Brother watching you? Well now you'll have to look out for Little Brother too.
While digging around for a spare Anti-mass Spectrometer I came across an awesome little wireless camera, the Swann Black Hawk Wireless Color Camera with Built-in Battery and 2.4ghz Receiver (which has a product line about 'keeping an eye on loved ones'. Sure.):  The camera itself is TINY, measuring a little over 2" long and with a built in lithium battery. Like any self respecting geek, thoughts of mounting this to a small R/C car and driving it into the girls locker room immediately filled my head. Except, I'm not in highschool anymore and I certainly don't want to see my hairy ass coworker naked. Oh well, spying on clothed people around the office will have to suffice. We just so happened to have a TINY Team Losi Micro-T R/C car sitting around the office:  TINY Camera? Check! TINY R/C Car? Check! TINY R/C Spy Car?? Check! Surely joining these two gadgets would be an incredibly complex procedure, so I stretched my mind and our materials budget and went all out using an entire 1 inch piece of double sided sticky tape. Parts:  Incredibly difficult procedure of adding the sticky tape:  Finished Product:  And for size comparison, here's the Micro Spy Car with an Ultra-Exclusive Limited Collectors Edition Official Trossen Robotics Coffee Mug:  Click Here for bigger picture Okay so that was *hard*! Now for the fun part- driving around the office with it! I plugged the video receiver into a little portable LCD display we had laying around and went nuts. You can also plug the video receiver into a USB video capture device to view and record your shenanigans on your computer. Here's a quick video we shot of the Micro Spy Car driving around our back room:
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#11
08-29-2008
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Re: Create a Micro Spy Car
I was the webcaster for iHobby Expo 2004-2006. Practically in Trossen's back yard and didn't even know it at the time.
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#12
08-29-2008
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Re: Create a Micro Spy Car
Will you be going this year?
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#13
08-29-2008
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Re: Create a Micro Spy Car
Naw, I've kinda gotten out of the webcasting thang - unless I take a job in that 'hood.
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#14
10-01-2008
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Re: Create a Micro Spy Car
I like this one, looks like a fun easy project to do.
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#15
02-07-2009
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Re: Create a Micro Spy Car
I'm guessing by the simplicity of this project, you could probably take any sort of rc car, given it has the means to go forward and backwards, and turn either left or right, get a webcam with a usb extension cable, and get the same results, except it'll be tethered, and the video probably not as crisp.
Though I will say, it's a nice way to kill time and to annoy coworkers and family members. |
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#16
02-07-2009
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Re: Create a Micro Spy Car
"A USB extension cable"
16ft. Doesn't that kinda destroy the concept?
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#17
02-07-2009
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Re: Create a Micro Spy Car
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However, if you're looking for a quick fix until you can actually get the camera, it's something that someone that has the stuff already. And trust me, I've seen USB cables extend somewhere in the neighborhood of 25ft and more, especially if you have a mom and pop shop and you don't wanna go through the hassle of setting up a wifi camera network for your pc. |
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#18
02-07-2009
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Re: Create a Micro Spy Car
I've got "USB" cables over 1500 ft (USB over Cat5 Baluns). At that point, though, why bother with R/C?
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