Driving an RC car over 60mph using my racing simulator (4G)
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2021
- Check out one of my summer projects this year. I outfitted this giant RC car with my own electronics and software that allow for full traction control and RPM based ABS. Not only that, but it's controlled via the Internet using my racing simulator or an Xbox controller and phone app. It features full disc brakes, fluid filled shocks, limited slip diffs, AWD, adjustable alignment, custom 3d printed control arms, and a top speed of 77mph. A massive amount of RND went into making it drivable over 4G LTE. This means it can be driven remotely from anywhere in the world with cell service. Enjoy this video of me driving it around my neighborhood and a makeshift middle school parking lot "racetrack" 🏁
Thanks for your interest. I still have all of this working just as it is shown in this video and there are many other vehicles as well! I’d love to turn this into a business with multiple sims and cars racing around an indoor venue with camera angles all around the track. If you’d like to help make that possible please reach out to m.a.adib96@gmail.com
I appreciate the effort you're putting into this, it very well could become a business, with transparency and the ability for people to simply come to a location and experience it!
I would definitely go. I know a lot of people that would go.
I have a pretty decent amount of ideas to improve the control loop, reduce latency, etc that could be implemented, where are you located generally and would you be open to receive remote consulting? I just can't relocate but I'd love to help make this happen and improve it.
Fun idea. People can drive real cars from anywhere or even send their own for a race, without being there in person. Only latency and reliability might cause unpredictable troubles..
@@dailybusiness8162 I think that would get pretty limited by the people with setups capable and don't really think the latency part of that could be overcome. I'm honestly surprised he had as good an experience over 4G
This is the kind of thing we as kids in the 80s dreamt of. Just awesome to see it had become reality.
dreamed not dreamt
Seriously. The first thing I thought was “this would have BLOWN MY MIND as a kid”
@@01hZboth are acceptable for past tense
Totally would have been rad!
If he could somehow fix the input lag, it would be just perfect 😍 He was lucky the roads were empty, because without mirrors and peripheral view, could have been a tragedy for the RC car. In any case, amazing work!
It would be so funny to have two of these setup and have a friend with a cop car and do a chase. I'd love to see people's reaction to a mini car chase coming out of nowhere.
That's like wee man staging that bar fight with mini paramedics in jackass LMFAO.
have a 3d friend with a rc Heli tail them XD
Adding a speaker for those car SFX seems great too.
Agreed
Great idea for a video.
The relatively low input delay is the most impressive part.
Still way to high imo but in a few years should be perfect
@@1970Metallica I don't think a few years is going to solve that, or at least we're at the point of diminishing returns.
Assuming the camera is 30fps, that's 33ms per frame. Assuming worst case scenarios where the the information of the frame is sent on the next actual frame, it then needs to be encoded to be transmitted, travel some distance at the speed of light (negligible time delay at these distances), then decoded, run through the computer, through the next GPU cycle, then assuming the screen refresh rate is 60fps, that's another minimum of 16ms being added. Absolute best case scenario you're looking at a minimum of 50ms delay, but with transcoding, I wouldn't expect anything under 100ms any time soon. Not without putting overpowered computing on the vehicle and spending cashmoney, yk?
120-160 ms its impressive? 😂
First and before i saw how input latence is i though its fake video couse onboard camera not response on wheel turn.
After few minutes i saw hes latancy between rig/rc.
Anyway. Its cool idea ofcourse👍
WE NEED TELEMETRY, AND THIS THING WOULD BE COMERCIAL.
@XRMissieMusic They just need to bypass the computer all together and go with a 5.8 video transmitter and custom map the chair setup also to direct rf. Would be running 90fps with 14ms latency
bro's really out here making blind turns with active traffic
Yeah, I wonder what the outcome would be if someone braked hard and caused a wreck.
Yep... fkn dangerous and unnecessary... He could do that shit in a parking lot or anywhere where there's no traffic or pedestrians to hurt
@@the_rick4360 It's a residential area, no one is going over 25 mph here and there's barely any traffic.
@@NekoMMDGTS Still illegal and dangerous
@@NekoMMDGTS ehh the road is being shared so blind turns at a stop sign is pretty bad regardless of the speed limit. It's better to take this hobby to an isolated area, not a public road.
Imagine a E-sports league like this? On actual race tracks. This has so much potential, keep pushing it man!
it actually exists and it's called Drone Racing! But not with rc cars, with rc racing drones
@@seasky_ So then it doesn't exist lmfao.
You could get full mariokart/wipeout with it and add traps, hazards and weapons.
Like getting searched by the police or something?
Right lol man I'd be in 100 percent
This is the stuff I used to dream and fantasize about growing up in the late 80's/early 90's.. I wanted a camera mounted RC helicopter or plane actually, but I would have been stoked with a PoV RC car.. 30 years later, we got private drones with cameras and the rest became history.. cool setup, I'm still jelly even 30+ years later..
It ain't too late. I started flying FPV quadcopters two years ago at 61. It was always something I thought would be awesome too, and it is. Especially with everything digital now.
You can still enjoy it!
I used to dream about becoming a drug lord using fleets of drones. I was a very stupid teen.
@@sl0ptart it's still not too late😄
Same! But with BJ and the Bears Aerodyne and The General Lee....!
Mans put his plates, house, and neighborhood all in one video. BOLD.
I was thinking the same damn thing. Scuffed.
@@MacroAggressor he tagged the city too i dont think he cares lil babies
@@MacroAggressorhe probably just has guns lol
@@ShawnSavageTeachings I mean, hell... *_I_* sure as sh** have guns, but the last thing I'm gonna do is publish my address. More power to the guy I guess. _May the spirit of saint Rittenhouse guide you._
@@MacroAggressor hey he’s a free man for a reason! Did nothing wrong.
Bro really went outside without going outside.
Mounting cameras on each the side of the car ( displaying on your side monitors ) or mounting the front camera on a gimbal (2-3 axis) would have made the intersection less scary.
There should be a racing league with this setup.
How cost effective would such setup be next to a full size Formula 1 sporting event?
@@MonguinAssassin
Good question. The smaller tracks already exist and the FPV gear isn't cost prohibitive...much of the software is Free Software licensed...the hurdle would be in the marketing and event...DRL, DRA, and what DCL used to be...for quadcopter FPV racing.
for the full sized Formula 1, the costs to install the FPV gear and radio networks would be a very small cost comparatively...Roborace should have done this with the Robocar.
Yep. Make a TrackIR set control the gimbal and you've got yourself one hell of an RC racing sim.
Sega in Japan did this in the 1980's can you believe that? They had cockpits around an indoor track.
There's a lot of image on top and bottom that's not useful. I reckon he could chop off the image top/bottom and have a better experience, by stretching this footage over 3 screens.
I love the internet because you can get a glimpse of things you'd otherwise NEVER knew existed, like this. What a badass piece of work!! Awesome vid.
What about the dark web? Have you ever visited the dark web?
That can be good or bad 😂
dark web is goofy@@presidenttnediserp428
Its fake
@@4kingace379 is that right lol
I would love this to be developed into an actual racing series. POV scale cars, sort out the frame rate and POV so you can see what’s next to you. Like racing drones, but on the ground. So cool.
If you did it on smaller tracks you could easily use the same camera/goggles drones use.
Dude... I'm not kidding.. I think this is the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life. Awesome setup.
You should do an of road vehicle next.
I'm a big rc guy myself. I do cars, trucks, planes, jets, helicopters, all of the above. I gotta say, this is an RC Dream and is absolutely one of the Coolest things I've seen. Great job driving. That was Totally Awesome!!!!
facts bro isn’t it tho
Check out my homemade fpv cockpit for fixwings
I’m somewhat of an rc guy myself 😏
Speaking of planes, imagine how cool it would be to turn your flight sim cockpit in a remote control for RC planes!
@@AdamsOlympia check out mine for fixwings
Just some ideas: I think setting the rotation of the wheel much lower + enabling a strong centre spring to simulate some kind of ffb would help a lot with controllability.
Also putting a much wider angle lens on the live feed camera would be sick.
I wonder if making an actual ffb simulation here would be possible. I think it would require appropriate sensors in the tires that would deliver data that could be processed into feedback.
And a Quadcopter with auto tracking capturing the whole thing from above! Bitchin!!
@@Cavi587FFB won’t be 100% possible, and even if so the delay from the transmitter will make it even more difficult to controll, but with that being said you can simulate FFB by having a seperate controller that can somehow measure/read the resistance from the servo’s weight (don’t forget you also need some way to accually transmit that information back to the user) with that information you “could” run a certain program that can simulate that resistance onto your Sim wheel…That’s as close as you can get with FFB atm with the current software that is
Also don,’t exclude the delay from the data that needs to hè sent to a program to je translated and then being output on a wheel base.
@@VycroYT Yeah, I know of these limitations. My thought was to perhaps create a system which isn't as remote but the connectivity is of higher quality. So essentially have a certain place, like a built to scale race track on an old parking lot and have simrigs be somewhere close to it. Then the data flow could be less of a bottleneck here. And for FFB I think a good start would be some sensors directly inside of the tires measuring compression or some other parameter that could be interpreted to FFB data. But that's a far reach, first I'd have to do some isolated tests to even check out if it's possible. Maybe a good project to have fun with when I'm not busy with my life like I am right now.
Head tracking would be much better than a wider angle lens
Genius! The most interesting video I’ve seen in a while! Love the view from the cockpit. The depth perception is incredible
Holy moly, I've wanted something like this since I was a kid. My dad and I built a gas powered RC car and drove it all over the place back in the 2000's. I always wanted to remotely control it with a cam from my computer and here you are with my dream set up. Well done. You should bring your friend a soda with it, lol.
This is the kind of thing that makes me so happy to be alive at this point in the development of technology.
I've always thought the idea of getting your home town and local streets in a driving sim would be so fun. This is the next level tho haha
take this to the top. sooo much possibility with what you've done. amazing work, do not stop!!!!
this is definitely be something huge in the future I could only imagine all the tracks people will build for competition
I mean you’d probably wanna stick to the tracks they already use for this… they tend to fit the cars perfectly
@V8chump well actually blah blah blah
Very impressive radio range/penetration with all the obstructions.
It’s over 4g lte :) sooo the internet
@@MohammadAdib great idea! With 5G would the latency and frame rate improve?
@@MohammadAdib It seems you have very low latency !
@@alex75329 Really the latency and frame rate looked horrible to me but, I'm used to FPV. This would be nice with an fpv setup I'd probably just put the radio gear on a pole on the roof with an antenna tracker.
@@alex75329 150+ms is awful latency, if you had this much latency in a car you'd kill yourself in 1 day
This is incredibly inspiring. I can not stress how cool this is from someone uniquely obsessed with attempting something similar currently. Always fun to see it actually working. Great work
learning disabled and going outside is hard. not going outside and being trapped scaring at a screen is basically staring at a wall with a moving picture but its still a wall. the idea that I can experience a world others are in with a cool race car or drone from my desk is breath taking. the raw envy I feel at the freedom you have at your finger tips.
Now this is how you drive RC cars. Just imagine racing all your friends this way in and out of neighborhoods
Mario Kart comes to life
People would just stop your mini-cars and steal them for sale or whatever reason. Some people are just bad.
@damsen978 But then you would have footage if it and would know who it was. I do think that they would make laws against it though if a bunch of people were doing it
@@sebastianwhalin743 yeah I can see how that could be an issue especially if you have like 20 of them driving around the neighborhoods
I'm a father of three and we love RC's, and to see this just makes our eyes light up this is just out of this world amazing Good job on that!! this is totally worth watching 😊
I actually thought about doing something like this when I make my own RC. Good to see that people already tried and it feels really smooth for a indie creation.
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for sharing your experience.
I think the connection latency might be an issue for emergency braking in case of vehicles appearing which you might crash into.
small price to pay
Latency should be fine, it's just coverage and packet loss.
I game on my Desktop PC from my laptop whenever I'm on vacation and my latency is usually 30-40ms
It shows on the screen his latency is around 150ms which for steering a car going 50mph is 11 feet (3.35m) before the car reacts. I'd say it's definitely an issue.
@@CiastekBt if you look the delay between him moving the wheel and seeing the movement on the screen, his real world latency is close to 500 ms, pr half a second.
Needs a real fpv system like the dji O3 or walksnail probably more suitable with the vrx, hdmi out.
Am I the only one here visualizing in my brain all the things that could've gone terribly wrong in that run?
A jaywalking mouse perhaps? 😂
Ankle smasher 5000
no guts no glory
@redmercury77 captain. Gazpacho the mouse
That would have shattered someone's leg beyond repair.
One of the coolest things I've ever seen. I love how much you love this.
This is one of the coolest RC car videos on RUclips. I was looking to put a FPV camera on my RC car and came across this. Pretty good range to be able to go around the neighborhood. Great job!
This is sooo ridiculously cool. Ive been captivated the whole way through! What an incredible and creative thing to do. I feel every hobbyist needs to see this! Crazy! Thanks for creating this content Mohammad!
Ye I'm sure passing intersections without looking is pretty cool... Freeking US man I can't..
This is insane. Love it! Would be great to see your full setup and how you hooked everything together, hopefully you will share at some point what goes behind the scene. Appreciate your effort and thanks for sharing
That is one of the coolest things i have ever seen. I know how hard that was to achieve. Simply Amazing!!!
From the thumb nail I thought this was just some racing sim junk, but WOW this is super cool. I'm glad I clicked.Very impressive RCs. Thanks for the share.
Home made drone RC car, what's not to love. You are a freaking genius. Dreamed about it as a kid.
This is on another level… it’s been idk how long since something blew my mind. But this is insane man.
One of the best cars ever made and driven! RIP KB! You are the future, my guy!
You may have just unlocked a new addiction for me. Thanks, brother.
Sounds like a fun passion project. Building a car’s mechanical parts and electronics from scratch
The coolest RC car setup I’ve seen so far.
I would not be able to believe my eyes seeing this in on coming traffic, and absolutely no dude in sight. amazing tech - well done !
I used to run RC cars. Always thought something like this would be amazing, but you actually made it happen.
You might be on to something here. Great work, I absolutely love this!
This was a dream of mine as a kid! Nice to know we actually have the technology now to do this for real.
Takes EVERYthing to a whole new level 😮
Drone Wars . Very skilled operator .Very nice Build .
Actually it would be cool to make racings with real toy cars. Only with a keyboard even without a wheel. The coolest part is to compete like in computer gaming but in real world. 🙂 Something like multiplayer games but with real toy cars and in real conditions. It would be fantastic 🧡if someone some days create such a format.
That’s would be pretty cool.
@@zachm522 will this technology be available in the US?
They are testing in the U.S. now.
I actually made this a few months ago, and make lots of stuff like it for my channel :)
@@zachm522 I watch this channel. It is interesting. Now they are at the beginning of the way. Because it is interesting not only drive, but compete in groups on different tracks, different types of cars, may be tracks with obstacles and so on. May be complete some missions. Of course only on computer or tablet. I.e. multi-player game like pubg, wot blitz etc. To make this in real world it will require much. But it might be the biggest fun. 🎉💛
You clearly put some effort into making this happen. It was a joy to watch so I can't imagine the reward you got from actually driving the car and it working so well. Good job Sir! A like and a Sub well earned! And may I ask, what kind of reliable range do you get?
That's the coolest thing I've seen in a long time! So awesome!
The toys these days are a dream come true. Fantastic!!
I think RUclips's just seen this video, an amazing idea and a good working car. Nice job man I'd really like to have a car like that. That looks so fun
This needs more recognition. Awesome work
This guy is going to be a millionaire if he isn't already.
Why? Everyone can do it with money. You just need to buy an rc car with camera and use some already made programs to do it. I doubt he compiled any of it.
That was awesome, great job, really impressed with the stability of the car at speed
This is why I love humans. This guy is so amazing and I hope he makes it in life. Please be an engineer and make cool stuff for us car and sim nerds. Great job homie.
bro is saying that like he's not one of em.
yo hook me up with a tractor beam or smth
There should be an entire RC racing league that uses sim cockpits for their race!
This is beyond cool. Every 90s kids dream.
90s kid here. I can confirm.
What a way to surveil an area. This is brilliant.
You sir, are a great man and my new hero. A pov drone and sea baby are now a must. For you I mean.
Impressive that it holds the connection so well with seemingly no issues or lag
Exactly my first thought! 🤘
there is 100-200ms of lag, very noticable actually
there is tons of latency
"no issues or lag"
lolwut, did we even watch the same video? There's almost half a second of visual lag, which means the 125-150 ms of latency he's showing on the screen is probably one-way, making the round-trip latency, I.E. from input to response on the screen, twice that.
@@E36Variance ohh that makes more sense now, was thinking damn that's alotta lag for 150ms
Finally the movies' way of doing long-range RCs has come to life! Well. A lot of things aren't possible yet, like force feedback and 60fps recording, but anything that makes it remotely close to the ultimate RC experience is a big win for me :)
nice unintentional pun
This has to be the coolest thing I've seen in a long while. Awesome! I want one 🙂
This is just amazing. Great job!
You should use the onboard IMU sensors to do force feedback also :D Great job on making this all work, I understand it's a lot of work on multiple different software layers.
Great job, this is pushing the envelope, with so many real life applications. How come this video doesnt have 10 M views!!
Cause this has been done before my friends dad in the 90s/00 done this different set up obviously.
@@bradleythorburn90s tech doesn’t even come close to what we have today. That was probably a terrible experience
That’s a fine piece of engineering! Congrats on a successful mission.
This is one of the most genius things in rc stuff I've ever seen! 👍
I thought I'd found a new idea until I checked online! What you've produced is incredible. May I suggest you approach F1 with an idea to create scaled down Micro F1 tracks for the public to practice/race on for a season, each Micro F1 Championship race taking pace when the actual F1 event is at that course. All courses could be built in one place where the climate is good for all year round use, such as Southern Spain, Morocco or Arizona. Having them in one place means they can all be run and managed properly 24/7 to cope with world market time zones. Having the F1 drivers race a 20 minutes event a week before an F1 round would create great media coverage for them, and the online ad space value while the race is live would be worth a fortune. Just another one of my slightly ridiculous, but potentially highly popular and lucrative thoughts!
This is super cool! Have you considered adding VR and head tracking with a 360 cam inside the car so that it can feel as close to the real thing as possible? Still super amazing just the way it is! Great job on the build!
This!!!!!!
While it would be incredible in theory, the latency involved in this setup would make a VR headset extremely nauseating. Lag and VR do not go well together, especially 200ms+. The technology needed to make a portable 360° camera stream at sub 100ms doesn't really exist yet.
EDIT: It doesn't really exist yet outside of proprietary implementations, like DJI FPV drones.
I have to say, that looks and feels fun AF!
Very cool. I admire your ingenuity.
Wow this could become new sport without death 😁
Just need to know how to improve the signal camera, and its ready for real RC POV racing sport
So good. 2 more cameras, one either side that got o your side monitors for a wide view would be epic!!
The limiter here is a connection speed
Otherwise there would be at least better main cam
This should become a racing series. Could you imagine???
Had this idea for like two decades now, cool to see somebody actually do it.
doood , thats epic, maybe on the next one a Pan ? for seing around the corners ? but awesome job :)
Super cool project!!! I was wondering what you were using for the video transmission so I had to check out your description. The cell signal for video and control was an unexpected solution. Coming from the FPV multi rotor scene, that video feed was rock solid over longer distances. The traditional FPV video transmission system probably would not be able to do this with a ground vehicle putting so much ground clutter in between it and the receiver antenna.
Ohh I was wondering how in the world he got such long range AND with video too! Cellular makes sense.
Very impressive!!! I have been waiting for someone to use cellular signal to do exactly this!!!
Always wanted to do this, glad someone with some proper knowledge has done it :)
Can please x 100 make a how you did this video for the RC / sim racing community? I have been dreaming about doing this for years! You did it first, well done. I have 10's of RC's, a cool sim racing setup and a backyard track to try it out. Force feedback and VR is the ultimate dream ;)...
I have been wanting to do something like this for a while but never got the idea off the ground that's super awesome. If you could figure out a way to make a triple camera feed you might be able to shoot side views to the peripheral monitors so crossing streets doesn't suck so bad
Awesome video buddy. Looks like so much fun. Subscribed.👍
This is nothing short of brilliant.
I had the same idea while talking to a friend and came to youtube to check if anyone tried it. Awesome project, I will start a similar one soon. The biggest challenge would be to implement some sort of force feedback based on whats happening to the RC car.
Been thinking about that as well, and I think I have a solution. Using the guts of a two stick multichannel RC transmitter, you can connect the potentiometers to the swing arms, combined with data from a gyro would give you pretty accurate telemetry that could be received on the control end by a standard receiver and input directly into a 4 actuator motion rig. The gyro data would be used if you also have a rig which rotates. As for the force feedback, I'm pretty sure that there are servos which measure and relay the force applied to it, but barring that you could attach another channel pot to the steering rack to send back its movements and then use an algorithm to remove the motion due to steering input leaving only the feedback from the road for the force feedback. I did something similar a couple of years back with a large buggy and my racing rig, the video is here on my YT channel. I had much shorter range, but much better video quality. I had it working with a gimbal and head tracking too at one point, but there was too much drift and I didn't want to lose a very expensive RC car rig, but now I've got that solved using DJI gear for rock solid head tracking, and I just now ordered a stereo camera rig that uses Raspberry Pi gear, and compiles the side by side image at the source, so I can transmit a 3D image back using EZ Wi-Fi Broadcast for low latency and decent range. The signal will then be ported into a custom VR goggle with a 4K screen, so when combined with accurate head tracking should give me full immersion. I'll also be eventually adding an array of mics to complete the illusion.
@@miggyfixx6418 Really good ideas. I watched the video on your channel. I was a really good project already. I can only imagine the results using head tracking and the VR goggle. I'm subscribing to your channel, please post a video when you finish or even during the project, I'm sure many people would like to see it.
Have u watch the cloudrc yt its so dope for me.
Same lol
I would be more worried about latency lol
2 years old and only 70k views..? This is unreal. I would have expected at least 500k I could imagine these days it would be even better with the drone tech we now have available to the public
Nobody cares about this stuff unfortunately. Now if you have someone doing a trendy shuffle dance, that right there is gold.
Thats sooo cool I remember playing those in the 80s arcade thinking same concept but fullaize.
I can see a new motor sports coming with this. This awesome!
Seems like you could mount the cam on it's own servo to be able to look right and left out the windows like a driver would. This is awesome dude, keep going!
Dude this is rad! I flew FPV drones for a minute; and often wondered why FPV wasn't in an RC car and boom... Here it is. Nice work! How do you get such good range out of your controller? That school was way further distance than I thought you could get
he’s not using RF, which would allow for a much higher quality and much lower latency, since there are dozens of obstacles that would block an RF signal at that range. cellular ip
dude, that's insanely awesome!
This is basically my childhood dream come true! That is so dope, my dude!
This is awesome. How much does it cost for the fpv and what parts did you use
it's really interesting to see that those brushless cars look almost too fast to the comprehension of human eyes on outside but when you actually "take a seat" in one the sense of speed is not much different with what we see outside of the windscreen of full scale cars, impressive work!
That is the best Rc thing I’ve ever seen on the internet ive seen fov but sim fpv you’re awesome
Excellent innovation and engineering.
Really cool idea and execution, I'd just be worried about the latency.
If you looked down in the bottom left hand of the main screen it had latency info which stayed around 140ms. Which is decent. For something moving so fast maybe it's not the best, but it's still alright. You can probably get sub 100 ms with some providers.
Imagine using this to make cocaine deliveries. If the cops pull him over they only find a prepaid sim card and no human driver.
This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
This is the coolest thing I have seen today.