RC Car + Arduino

Projects General Guidance
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Hello All,

Hope everybody is doing great. I am a newbie in Arduino world. I did some small projects with Arduino here and there.
Currently working on a Project where I have an old RC Truck chassis and I built some flat surface on Top of chassis so that I could put my laptop on it. I want to drive RC with Arduino. I gave it a shot and it feels RC wont move when on the floor but it works fine when I hold the RC.
It appears there is only 1 DC motor that is hooked with the RC. Guess the weight is killing the motor torque.

so my question is, what motor's should I buy ? which can be controlled by Arduino.
What motor shield I can use along with it because of H-Bridge.

Please advise. I am aware this kind of questions may have been asked already.. I have gone through few posts but nothing did helped so thought of posting my questions.

Please advise.

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If you want lots of power, try RC airplane motors. Check these out: link

They also need ESCs (Electronic Speed Controllers) - which are controlled using the servo class with Arduino. ESCs are included with the linked motors.

3

Thank you for your reply, Slow speed is also fine for my project. Should I go for Gear DC motor?

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I mean, do whatever you want, but from personal experience, RC plane motors are really easy to use and are quite powerful.