[Graham Hill]

Came across this on YouTube, it's a shame I don't speak German (at least I think it's German)

It's a step too far for me, especially as I am still struggling to get variable speed pace cars to work consistantently! However I'm sure the techies amongst us would find it interesting & it could be applied to any digital system.

Graham

 

[MrFlippant]

For the fun of it, yeah, but it would not work well for actual racing. The POV footage that looks fast, is still at painfully slow speeds for a slot car. At actual racing speeds, POV footage is unwatchable, let alone trying to control the car via the FPV.

 

[carlosinseattle]

Came across this on YouTube, it's a shame I don't speak German (at least I think it's German)

Hi Graham, you can translate the language in subtitles pretty easily. First turn on closed captioning, then after you do that go to settings and find "Subtitles/CC' and turn on "auto-translate" then scroll down to choose English. The translation isn't 100% perfect but it does a good job.

 

[Slotspeed]

Was my comment deleted or was it a glitch of some sort?

 

[MrFlippant]

Two threads

 

[Graham Hill]

To Carlos in Seattle - Thank you very much for the tip on translating, could be very useful in the future.

Graham

 

[Drifter2]

I'd be curious to see this being one with the latest 'digital' FPV gear.

FPV gear is constantly improving.

 

[carlosinseattle]

Here's a video about Carrera's plan to offer a "camera car". It has since been scrapped, but was really looking forward to it:

 

[MrFlippant]

It's nothing to do with how good the FPV gear is, it's how fast a slot car moves on a track the size of a room.

Here's a video I did ages ago for the SlotForum Test Track we had some fun with. It starts with POV footage on a car going around the track. Note that the camera was on top of the car, completely throwing off the COG, and I was NOT driving it anywhere near top speed because of that.

Would you be able to control the car from that point of view? Really? I'd like to see that.

 

[b.yingling]

This is similar to those who want 'realistic engine sounds'. On a typical home track, you probably spend less than a second on your longest straight. You want to go vroom and shift gears a couple of times in .85 seconds?!

 

[MrFlippant]

Exactly!

I can see the fun in it, just trundling around the track at low speeds, feeling like you're in the car from a visual standpoint. Toss in some engine sounds to go with it.

For racing? Nope. Neither the camera nor the sounds.

 

[GRUNZ]

When I watch on board camera footage on slot car videos I feel motion sick and it is far from realistic.

Maybe it might work on huge tracks with wide radius corners but for sure at a slower speed than you would normally have.

 

[dvd3500]

The video is in German... they pretty much just go through how they went about building it...

One thing I thought of... with this being on digital (and the set up requires digital for constant power [he points out that changing lanes causes cut outs that he will fix using capacitors...])

How do you know when someone is behind or beside you?

In analog you don't have to care (unless you have crossovers) but I can't imagine this working with digital unless someone is telling you it is safe to change lanes...

 

[fasterthanyouTim]

Some footage of a Go-Pro we hot glued to the top of an old porsche. Sorry, the file is to big to upload......

 

[MrFlippant]

YouTube is still a great place to upload videos in order to share them online.

 

[Slot.it]

I think it's pretty useless for driving, but would be fantastic for taking footage at, for example, the 24 Hrs of Henley with 16 cars on 4 lanes!