What do you do?

Submit the “Stuff” you have created! Share project ideas, completed projects and project horror stories in each of the three main categories listed below!

Submit your stuff!

Stuff I want to do.

Stuff I've done.

How I do stuff.

How I do stuff.

Fan Powered RC Car

Chris Dycus | May 29th, 2008
Illustration Illustration Illustration Illustration Illustration

This is an RC car I built. It’s pretty quick, as you can see in the video. It’s easy to build, despite its complicated looks. Here are the basic steps:

Cut a base out of balsa wood, making sure to cut away parts for the front wheels.

Mount the front wheels, including the servo.

Mount a fan on the back wheels and mount those.

Rig up a servo arm to press a switch; that will be the GO button. Have that switch turn a relay, which then feeds power from the main battery to the fan. Mount it.

Mount the relay battery and the fan battery.

Mount the receiver, and hook up the servos.

Attach the batteries for the receiver.

And that’s about it! Thanks for reading.

4 COMMENTS on “Fan Powered RC Car”

  1. Drew | June 9th, 2008 6:21 pm

    That seems pretty cool. I’ll have to try that this weekend when I’m not busy. Thanks for the entertainment!

  2. Sam | June 15th, 2008 11:46 pm

    Great project. Can u specifically name the parts used in the project and where can i buy those parts?

  3. 1up | June 17th, 2008 4:48 pm

    “Great project. Can u specifically name the parts used in the project and where can i buy those parts?”

    Sorry, not really. These parts are from former RC cars, and they were given to me by a friend. I don’t know where he got them. :(

  4. Looking4ideas | August 30th, 2008 1:44 pm

    Ill try this with a old nitro rc airplane motor. I wonder how fast it will go

What Do You Think? Star