NuttsnBolts

So I've got holidays for the next week but what's more awesome is that I will be heading down to Canberra to race TWO RC cars in the Final round of Club Challenge.

So I got my regular 4WD Tourer car but I've also got a 12th scale that I'm borrowing off a few friends. I say few because I'm getting the Chassis off one mate, the electronics from another, the batteries from the guy running the event.

Examples of what a 12th scale looks like.
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So the touch screen for my laptop stopped working. *Hmmm*

I check the settings in case I pressed something... Nothing
Check the User Input drivers... Nothing
Venture into google and start looking up information and basically dive into some complex and unusual ways of fixing the issue.
I try everyone of them with no success.
I then look at my drivers and start troubleshooting on them. They are all fine and up to date.
PC tells me that there ...

I just bought a new Remote Control car! The car that I was previously using was a Tamiya TRF-417 but I've switched brands to a T.O.P. Photon EX. For people that aren't familiar with what that means it all comes down to the comparison, availability of parts and the setup support that they have available.

Tamiya is a brand of car that have been around for many many years. My first 3 cars were Tamiya brands and when I ventured back into the hobby I decided to go down the route that I knew ...

Quick one but I bought my ticket to Supernova this weekend and I'm heading there with 2 or 3 mates. Should be good as I usually find it a bit of fun.

However the more exciting news is that I got my ticket in the mail for PAX Aus! Flying down to Melbourne Thursday, going there all day Friday, and then spending another day and a half in Melbourne. I'm gonna meet up with some people that I knew from Sydney for the Friday but on the Saturday I may be meeting up with someone I knew from ...

Had an amazing day of racing yesterday. Personally I ended up 5th in the C Class finals so it wasn't a great position to end in but I had fun. I didn't have my usual car with me so I was borrowing another car and it wasn't set up completely for my style of driving, but it was still a hell of a lot better then one that was broken.

My mate and I got to the track at about 5:30am and started to help setup, practice and get ready for the 8am race start. In my first race I had issues with ...