I'm looking at setting up a scalextric 'stall' at our local schools fun day to help raise some money to send some kids on a 'life experience' trip to Zambia. Given that my scalextric has never really ventured out of my loft before and I'm fairly new to digital I suspect I'm going to be on a steep learning curve over the course of the day. So I figured I'd set out what I'm planning to do here and see if anyone is able to contribute any wisdom / experience to my plans.
First off, I've asked for 3 table tennis tables plus power and I'm planning to build the following circuit:
I have five controllers / digital cars (2 DPR, 3 with digital in-built)
I'm trying to enlist some help and so far have one volunteer!
I was planning to charge £1 per person for a 15 minute session, if it goes well and I have enough people who want a go I'd try and get people to sign-up to 15min slots on some kind of schedule. I'm not sure whether the 15min sessions should just be just pull the throttle and go or whether I should have qualifying and races or whether I should just leave it flexible and see what people want to do (I was leaning towards the latter).
I'm also not sure whether to run all 5 cars or just 4 and keep a spare in case of a problem!
I'm going to try and leave a couple of hours for set up. I find WD40 is not only good for cleaning but also helps in terms of getting rid of power drops. I'm also wondering whether there's any other tricks for hastily fixing power breaks on the day?
Another area where I could do with advice concerns race rules. There's a good thread somewhere on this forum where people are advocating 'no contact'. I think I'll try and enforce this with some kind of warning / sin bin system.
I don't have enough barriers and I'm a bit concerned about cars coming off the table tennis tables. I might try and fabricate some kind of barrier to prevent this.
Any advice / thoughts would be very welcome!
First off, I've asked for 3 table tennis tables plus power and I'm planning to build the following circuit:
I have five controllers / digital cars (2 DPR, 3 with digital in-built)
I'm trying to enlist some help and so far have one volunteer!
I was planning to charge £1 per person for a 15 minute session, if it goes well and I have enough people who want a go I'd try and get people to sign-up to 15min slots on some kind of schedule. I'm not sure whether the 15min sessions should just be just pull the throttle and go or whether I should have qualifying and races or whether I should just leave it flexible and see what people want to do (I was leaning towards the latter).
I'm also not sure whether to run all 5 cars or just 4 and keep a spare in case of a problem!
I'm going to try and leave a couple of hours for set up. I find WD40 is not only good for cleaning but also helps in terms of getting rid of power drops. I'm also wondering whether there's any other tricks for hastily fixing power breaks on the day?
Another area where I could do with advice concerns race rules. There's a good thread somewhere on this forum where people are advocating 'no contact'. I think I'll try and enforce this with some kind of warning / sin bin system.
I don't have enough barriers and I'm a bit concerned about cars coming off the table tennis tables. I might try and fabricate some kind of barrier to prevent this.
Any advice / thoughts would be very welcome!