Arduino Based MAGRacing

Sounds great Martin.

Could your rx be use in a conventional slot car as well?

The tyres on your car are a good improvement and the

shapeways offerings that Ned has linked to, look very nice.

Not sure if the motor driver would stand 12v supply I would have to check. However now I have the design sorted, it wouldn't be too much trouble to do another with this capability.

I have also noticed that Flysky transmit on 8 channels even though we only use two. Well 3 actually as I have the third channel switch set up to toggle an output (for lights etc)

I have been thinking some of these other channels (4-8) could be used to send control data to the cars, particularly from a base station transmitter for ghost cars or scenery.

Have you ever raced a magracing car on a conventional plastic track? I reckon having the rails in the track the cars will have the same road behaviour as on a slotless track with piano wires underneath.
If that works, you might turn a conventional slot track into a track with ideal racing lines and overtaking points just by adding metal strips under the track surface.
I'm curious if that would work.

Merc