How to make RC-hobby more interesting? (Use of miniaturized technology in military and scientific operations)

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

We all know about RC-cars. Those small remote controlled vehicles are a good hobby for some teenager or elder person. But if you want to get more about that thing, you just need one cell phone and take a video call, and now you can control your RC-vehicle even if you are not in visual contact with it. As the reader might already know that thing is simple, put cellphone where is a program for video call to RC-car and you can use other cellphones to see where you can drive.


Only thing what you must remember is remote controllers operative radius, and that will make your hobby simpler. Using "find my phone"-action you might see where you RC-car is going. But if you want to make your RC-car faster, just put there RC-airplanes combustion motor and servomotor what will use a carburetor. That small machine can replace gas pedal in this system.


Those kind of stuff are free to buy from net or hobbyists shops, and any person who is over 18 is allowed to buy a cellphone. If you want to make more fast RC-car, you just might want to make a hybrid vehicle, where combustion engine uses a small generator, what is connected to a small electric motor. Why electric motors make cars faster than combustion motors if they have enough electricity is that electric motor is rotating, and that's why it can have higher radial speed than combustion engine what uses to and from moving pistons. Most modern military intelligence equipment is also a size of RC-cars. Their mission is like more well-known flying drones, but that kind of tiny robot cars can go to tunnels and investigate them.


Those robots use inertial navigation system for record them the route, and if they lose communication to headquarters they can drive back, and retry communication. Those little cars can deliver their operation area by flying drones, and they can also carry small but effective explosives, like small HEAT-warheads or Fuel-air explosives. That new type of remote-controlled combat vehicles has a basis in German "Goliath" miniature tank. They drive under a tank or other target and shoot this shell to bottom of it. Or they can drive to ammunition warehouse and explode themselves in there.


NASA would also be interested in that kind of miniature recon vehicles, what could send to other planets to investigate their icy moons and surfaces. Those RC-car style systems will use state of art artificial intelligence and networked computing when they investigate other planets and moons surfaces. Technology is same as working with autonomous nano size helicopters. For electricity, those systems might use cesium-batteries for long-term operations. Those systems basis in technology where they can deliver their computer resources to another part of that group.


Those systems might be a hybrid, and if the target is Titan, there might operate both kinds of vehicles. Helicopters what can carry those probes what operates that moons surface. And even if those systems are not so sophisticated than Mars roves they can cover more of that moon surface than one single big rover. And if NASA loses one vehicle it will not put the mission at risk.