While wheels might seem like a foundational technology, they do have one major flaw: they typically need maintained roads in order to work. Anyone who has experience driving a Jeep or truck off-road ...

You can always go out and buy an RC car off the shelf. However, it’s readily achievable to print your own design that has many of the features of off-the-shelf models, as demonstrated by [Jinan].

First of all, click play and admire the wonderous realism of someone’s handiwork. What you are witnessing is a mini 3D printed Oldsmobile that moves, sounds and looks like an actual car due to some ...

A future where lightweight car parts can be made with a 3D printer is here, thanks to multi-material additive manufacturing research. Researchers at Tohoku University's Institute for Materials ...

I’m not sure which hobbyist group is more creative—the people who build custom RC cars, or the ones that carefully craft every tiny detail into their stationary models. Whichever it might be, I think ...

Despite the fact that RC cars are enormously fun—how can you not smile when smashing a small automobile into everything from base boards to ankles?—it seems like they rarely duplicate the suspension ...