RC Water Rocket Car

[bandsons]

This is our 2nd test. Normal drive and steering do work on the car but during this test the car was off. Watch in HD.

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Our test before this one almost made it to the fence but I think that was because we had more water... and the ground is so bumpy.

Here we are using a new version of "the valve" made with carbon fiber...

It has been much harder than I thought to start learning Arduino and Xbees... so we wanted to apply what we have so far to this RC car. We hope to make it better next week.

[bandsons]

Here is another Video of the car firing while in motion:

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Thanks for watching!

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[bugwubber]

That is one Sweet ride!

[U.S. Water Rockets1]

That is pretty cool!!! Nice work!

Have you considered making a compressed air powered car that feeds the compressed air into one of those micro compressed air piston engines? That would be cool to see with R/C control!

[bandsons]

That is one Sweet ride!

Thanks bugwubber :-)

[bandsons]

That is pretty cool!!! Nice work!

Have you considered making a compressed air powered car that feeds the compressed air into one of those micro compressed air piston engines? That would be cool to see with R/C control!

Thanks! I never thought about that but it sounds fun. We really only spent like 10 minutes strapping on the water rocket stuff to that old RC car.

I've just received a pressure transducer and we are going to hook up to the Arduino so we can see what is going on in the tanks. I think we will learn more by having close to real time readings of the pressure.