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.
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A water rocket is a type of model rocket using water as its reaction mass. The pressure vessel (the engine of the rocket) is constructed from thin plastic or other non metallic materials (usually a used plastic soft drink bottle) weighing 1,500 grams or less. The water is forced out by compressed air. It is an example of Newton's third law of motion.
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Re: RC Water Rocket Car
Here is another Video of the car firing while in motion:
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Re: RC Water Rocket Car
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!
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!
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U.S. Water Rockets1 wrote: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.