À propos du projet
World's Smallest Smartphone Controlled Car
30 694 $
308
1/67 Scale Bluetooth RC with Precision Digital Proportional Steering, Variable Speeds, Working lights, and bright indicators! Handles like a real car!
Small enough to keep in your pocket and race anywhere!
The most sophisticated micro race car on the market
- App controls on your phone (friendly interface, easy to use)
- Precision Steering (steer your wheels with 90 degrees of precision)
- Multi-functional lights (enjoy bright left/right turning signals as well as headlights and brake lights)
- Customized speed options (proportional speed control, just like a real car! As well as high and low gear switch!)
- Sensor mode functions ('catch me if you can' - your car runs away from you under 'cockroach mode' when you attach our sensor cube)
- So small you can keep in your pocket and race anywhere!
BIG UPDATE! Make sure to read about all the extra options for new designs! (scroll to the end)
Precision Steering means this steers and drives like a car, NOT like those ebay RC cars! Proportional steering allows down to 15 degrees of control! No more BANG BANG steering!
Have fun racing this car around obstacle courses and race tracks you setup on your desk!
- 65 mm X 26 mm (sports car)
- 1:67 scale (slightly smaller than Matchbox cars and S scale for hobby trains)
- Bluetooth 4.1
- Android L and M compatible app (N compatible app in development)
- iOS 7.1 compatible app
- Digital Proportional Steering, Precision Control!
- 3 forward speeds, 2 reverse speeds
- Independently controlled signal lights and headlight
- Push button on the bottom that can be used to activate the headlights for use as a flashlight
- All of the cars support a locator and beacon function, which means you can use it as a tracker, or use it to ring your cellphone!
- Internal Battery allows the car to run for about 15-20 minutes (depending on speed). Charging takes less than 8 minutes from completely empty
- Expandable function packs for additional features!
- What really makes this micro RC car special is our plan to open up the development files of the project to the public! We will make the 3D files, APIs, and I/O ports open for development so you can modify, design, or make your own custom RCs!
3 control modes, Tilt to steer, on screen Joystick, and USB-OTG controllers
Perks and Packages
- Super Early Bird Perk
Free Express shipping and $20 discount! - Early Bird Perk
$20 Discount - Advanced Supporter
$10 discount - Custom Set
Hand Painted Custom Coloured Shells - Premium Set
We will design anything that can fit on the chassis! Custom car? Bulldozer? Cockroach? Sushi? We can do it for you! - Ultimate Set
A custom designed shells Plated in 24k GOLD! And a Customized App!
Design Partner:
Mike Lyden at interrobang toys
They have awesome designs rolling out soon that will clip right onto our chassis!
Shapeways Store
Quantow Custom shells and Wacky Shells!
Currently Available:
If you add $12 to your pledge you can get 1 extra shell of your choice, if you add $18 you can get 2 shells of your choice, and if you add $26 you can get 3 shells of your choice!
Also, if you have a 3D file you want me to print out for you I'm happy to oblige. If you want me to make the modifications ONLY for you, it will be $35 per shell. If you are willing to share the file, then it will be only $20 per custom shell.
HOW DO I ADD STUFF TO MY REWARD? This is the #1 question we get from backers. It's confusing, largely due to the fact that Kickstarter is not designed to work the same way as normal web store. But, the actual process is pretty simple:
1. Choose the item you want to add and note the corresponding dollar amount. If you want to add multiple items, simply add up their corresponding dollar amounts.
2. On the Kickstarter Page, click the manage my pledge button. The Manage My Pledge button is right near the top of the Kickstarter page. If you have not yet backed this project, the button will be green and say "Back this project." The Manage My Pledge button is right near the top of the Kickstarter page. If you have not yet backed this project, the button will be green and say "Back this project."
3. Increase your pledge amount by the dollar amount you noted in step 1, and click Next. Note that when you add items to your pledge there is no additional shipping fee. In this case, the backer is increasing their $40 pledge by $26 to add on 3 shells.
4. Confirm your new pledge amount by clicking next. You're done! A week or two after our campaign ends we will email you a survey. In that survey you will specify which products you want to add onto your reward.
Thank you to Adam for his great suggestion!
(fine print) Only the most popular shells will be plastic injected, for the 2nd and 3rd most popular options, they will be 3d printed, and finished by hand. These will be 3D printed at ultra fine quality, and then primed and coated by hand. The quality is very good, if you look at our models, the red truck and classic car are both 3D printed!
About the Project
As a Scale auto fan I’ve looked all over the world for matchbox sized RC cars but I’ve never been able to find a high quality micro RC car (outside of some very expensive DIY kits from Germany). Quantow was started to help small and medium sized businesses create brand new products.
After helping several customers with record-breakingly small Bluetooth projects, we realized we had the solution right in front of us! With Bluetooth 4.1 BLE, we had a low power, high function way to control a remote control car! The Quantow ‘Gear’ Minicar was developed completely in-house, from concept design, to mechanical design, PCB design, to programming; we developed everything ourselves over the last couple months.
Now we’ve reached the end of the development cycle and we’ve been searching for a way to fund the tooling for production. Help us bring the Gear Minicar to market (and get a great gift at the same time!).
Our Production Plan
Some basic definitions, T0 is first test batch of plastic injected parts from production tooling. T1 is parts/products that have final surface finishing applied and is production ready. Pilot run is the initial production run, between 1000 pieces to 2500 pieces, and is used to develop SOPs for 'full scale' manufacturing of 10,000 pieces or more.
- Currently we have ordered all the electronics components and PCBs for the initial pilot run. SMT will commence the week that our Kickstarter ends.
- We have ordered the tooling for the chassis and suspension parts. T1 is estimated by mid October.
- Sports car shell tooling has been designed and ready to start pending our approval. T0 might be done by mid October, T1 will be completed before end of October.
- Gears, wheels and tires are wrapping up their designs due to some last minute tweaks to the ratios but they will be ready by October 1st, tooling for these parts are much simpler so we might get T0 before end of October and T1 will be done by first week of November.
- Truck and charging stand tooling design is ready but we lack the funds to place the order! If our Kickstarter is successful, we will rush the tooling and plastic injection so we will have parts in our hands by mid-November.
- Since Christmas product deliveries for most products are shipped by Ocean containers (21-30 days), production will start to wind down by mid-November; we have negotiated with a factory to reserve a production slot for us for the last 2 weeks of November. We have worked with this factory before so we know they will make the deadline. This is the reason that only supporters who choose Express shipping might get their 'Gear' Minicars by mid-December. There is a chance that supporters who choose regular shipping can get their rewards before Christmas, but just to be safe this is not something we are promising right now.
Thank you from the Quantow Development team!
The Team Leaders
- Edward Chin, Designer
Los Angeles, California
facebook.com - Nathan Shiue, Electronics Engineer
Taipei, Taiwan
facebook.com - Michelle Liu, Branding
Hawaii - Tiffany Engle, Marketing
Pennsylvania - TiaoPi, Mascot, Big Boss
California
- If we reach 1500 supporters we will include a free Keychain clip so you can carry the car with your keys. ($5 value)
- @ 2500 supporters we will include the following for free:
Keychain clip & Classic car shell for free! - @ 3500 supporters we will include all of the above plus
1.) Lap timer/lap counter device (only works with Sport car shell) ($10 retail value)
2.) Accessory pack for Truck shell with plow attachment and tow hook attachment. ($8 retail value) - @ 5000 supporters we will include all of the above AND an extra ‘Pursuit’ pack for the truck: In Pursuit mode, you can chase another car and disable the other car when you catch it!
About Quantow
We founded our company a little over a year ago, and in that time we have already designed 7 different electronic products, and we are already launching 3 of them to production!
Our Engineering Team is located in Taipei, Taiwan so that we can reach our vendors and factories in their timezone. Our Sales and Design team operates in the Pacific Standard time zone (Los Angeles) so that we can talk to our clients during their business hours. If you need to reach us, just drop us a message and we will get right back to you!
Risques et défis
Delivery Times:
Christmas is a very busy time! Although we've scheduled in buffer time for ship dates, there can still be small delays that add up. We've helped many clients with their production and we think we've accounted for all remaining production issues.
Licensing: FCC and Bluetooth Certificate are usually the most difficult part of electronics projects, however our module has already been independently tested and passed so we are confident we will pass on the first go!
Shipping: International Logistics are a huge pain because of all the declarations needed for batteries in different parts of the world, however we have shipped a lot of devices before so we think we can conquer this.
Production and Tooling delays: We’ve got a great production partner! They have a lot of experience in manufacturing small parts and they are confident that they can meet our ship date!
With our extensive experience designing, engineering, and overseeing production of our clients projects, we are confident that we can get our own project launched smoothly.
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