RC28T: Indoor FPV RC Car

Since winter has been particularly tough for me this year with regard to not being able to use all the stuff I've been working on (covered in my other blog), I decided to try indoor FPV. I bought a Team Associated RC28T and a Spektrum VA2510 camera/video transmitter setup.

The RC28T is a small step above toy quality. It uses a built-in 1s lipo for power and has rear wheel drive. It has rear shocks and a solid rear axle. It has a fully proportional but very slow steeing servo.

It was a bit of a challenge to get the FPV system integrated on the small body of the RC28T. The VA2510 requires 5-13V to operate and I wanted to use a 1s (3.7V nominal) battery to power it, for the sake of weight. I ended up using a tiny step-up regulator which takes a 1s lipo battery and "steps-up" the voltage to the required 5V. It works well. I mounted a switch on the FPV system as well, so it's a simple matter to turn on/off the FPV system. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Driving it is kind of fun. The apartment is just too small, and the carpet can make it drive weird, where it won't track straight sometimes. It works well. It's just not a great environment for it unfortunately.