I spent some time a few months ago digging through some boxes of stuff I had packed away since my last move.  Much of the boxes and bins were filled with crap, and most of it was worthy of a trip to the Goodwill, or the garbage.  One box contained a pile of old radio controlled car parts, and I quickly dug through to see what had survived.

Building, tinkering, and racing rc cars was a kind of closet hobby of mine about ten years ago.  It is one of those hobbies that not too many people quite understand.  This is because they think of rc cars as the ones you see on the shelves of your local Wal-Mart.  The cheap plastic TYCO models that can barely make it over thick carpeting, and crumble when you take it off of a small jump. (more…)