Video Description
This has come FULL Circle for me, and what an amazing thing to witness. MEV and Turbo Racing just handed me the “real” version of something I’ve been playing around with since 2017 on RC ADVENTURES – driving RC with a steering wheel and pedals – but this time it’s not a hack, it’s an actual transmitter. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxmlrW4QCo4) And before anyone says it: no, I was not the first person to do a wheel-to-RC mod. A bunch of people were tinkering with it back then. What I did was make it loud and on video, and Ryan from INNOEC (MEV)(https://innoec.com/) later told me they saw it while they were prototyping. That was cool to hear, but I’m sure they would’ve built this anyway, because they already had the education plan and the patent. This is just one of those rare times the hobby side and the education side lined up.
This thing is the MEV Telemetric Reality Race Vehicle Control System. Translation: the wheel and the pedals are the radio. No pistol grip. You sit like a sim driver, but you’re moving a real RC car. It’s built for schools and remote raceways, not for a big-box shelf, so they only make them in small runs and it’s priced like something that has to work the same way for a bunch of students, not just for one guy in his garage. (But I know how many of us want a setup like this! How could I resist bringing one in to show you!)
To show it isn’t a “works only on one car” gimmick, I ran it on two totally different rigs in the same session. First was a http://www.TurboRacing.net 1/64 Lancer EVO – tiny table-top racer, the kind I’ve been showing in my recent micro videos. With the wheel and pedals it suddenly felt way more serious than it has any right to be. Then I switched over to my http://www.Wave-RC.com 1/14 FMX Volvo 6×4 semi truck. ("RCSparks" 8% coupon code at Wave RC) Heavy, slow, scale. And it drove like butter! So Smooth, and extremely responsive to input. The side controls for the extra channels were great and controlled my lights, and shifter in my transmission. Same cockpit, two completely different vehicles - I think it can do up to 10 models. That’s the part that impressed me, THE MOST!
In the video I walk through the hardware, how I mounted it, how it binds to the Turbo Racing-based setup, and how the buttons can be mapped the way INNOEC teaches it – stuff like lights, extra channels, even a “boost” style function. That’s their original lane: teach kids and clubs to build, program, and actually drive from a realistic posture.
What I like about this story is it doesn’t erase anybody. Hobbyists were doing wheel mods. I did mine on RC ADVENTURES and a lot of people saw it. INNOEC was doing their own version for classrooms and later teamed up with Turbo Racing to manufacture it properly. They told me my video helped, and I’m proud of that, but this is their finished product. I just get to show it off.
So if you’ve been watching my Turbo Racing micro stuff and thinking, “Could I actually sit down and drive these like a sim?” – this is that moment.
Real wheel, real pedals, real RC's... Sounds like Real Fun to Me!