What We Need To Build Our Own 2 Channel RC Car

It’s not that easy and it’s not that hard to build our own rc car.  Let alone it’s just a 2 channel RC car.  Regardless how many channel you want to implement, this is still the main things that you need to posses before starting to ensemble and build the rc car.

  1. Radio transmitter (TX) or simply called as “radio” or “tx”.
  2. Radio reciever (RX) or simply called as “reciever” or ‘rx”.
  3. Electric motor or also called “motor”.
  4. Servo
  5. Electronic Speed Control or people always called just ESC.
  6. Battery pack
  7. Chassis
  8. Gears
  9. Axles
  10. Rims
  11. Tyres
  12. Body

However, there’s additional thing that you need to posses as well.

  1. Battery charger
  2. Soldering kit
  3. Screw drivers
  4. Insulation tape
  5. Heat shrink tube
  6. Scissor
  7. Cutter

There will be article for each of these “ingredients”.

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Never Be Too Proud To Learn From Someone Else

I have totally ZERO knowledge about making a truck RC, let alone a rock crawler type which is much more complicated than ordinary truck because it have a complicated articulation that makes it able to “crawl” among those rocks while other type of RC car cannot.

This is the “Ready To Run” rock crawler for you to see just in case you do not know how they look like.

Rock Crawler

Rock Crawler

See it live in action from the video below.

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