Gesture-based RC car controller using ESP32-S3, BLE, LSM6DSO IMU, OLED display, and LiPo battery with USB-C charging.
The RC truck world has changed dramatically over the last few years. At one point, you needed to be ready to spend hundreds of dollars and seek out specialty shops to get true hobby-quality equipment.
Designed for dirt trails, rock-crawling challenges, or racing on asphalt, modern RC cars combine advanced engineering and performance to handle various terrains. These vehicles replicate the ...
Engineer James Bruton has created a groundbreaking omnidirectional bike that moves in any direction using "walking globes" as ...
Advances in battery technology—for consumer electronics and electric vehicles alike—are largely incremental, and have been since the advent of modern lithium-ion cells almost 30 years ago.
Laboratory Technical Project Manager Gianmarco Chumbe has been part of the CNET Home team since 2018. He is in charge of developing and carrying out testing procedures for a wide variety of home ...
As well as a panel of keen racers taking the cars for a spin on a variety of surfaces, we put each RC car through rigorous testing to determine its durability, battery life and how fast it can go.
'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources ...
In groundbreaking research, scientists have made a structural battery 10 times better than in any previous experiment. What’s a structural battery, and why is it such a big deal? The term refers ...
A battery is a device that stores energy in chemical form and can convert it into electric energy through electrochemical reactions. Manipulating the crystal plane via a recrystallization strategy ...
While the DW01 is made specifically for lithium ion batteries, [Berto] found that it ... For example, this RC plane was converted to run with super capacitors.
Since we often rely on our mobile devices to shop, communicate, travel, and more, it's paramount to keep our phones' batteries charged. However, most of us can't stay tethered to a wall outlet.