29 Jun 2019
Looks like HPI Racing is coming back!! The UK based brand have announced that “change is coming” with a new ownership of its global operation. The major shareholders of the Scandinavian based Vestergaard Group have signed a deal that will see them utilise their 50+ years expertise and investment in the hobby industry to revitalise the HPI brand and push it forward.
Here at Hobby Media we love both RC and LEGO. This is more on the kid side of the Technic Series but our friend Sariel (legendary LEGO Technic mechanical designer author of several books) has posted a video review so here it is…
02 Feb 2019
Big Scale buggy fans will be happy to know that FG Modellsport at the Toy Fair 2019 presented two new versions of the LEO 2020. The model is designed for competitions and is available in 4WD and 2WD. Both are mainly composed of T7075 aluminum parts.
The chassis has a thickness of 4 mm with a very low center of gravity, uses differentials with bevel gears, cardan shafts in hardened steel and front hydraulic disc brakes in the 4WD version and central in the 2WD version.
It’s a really sad day in the Hobby world: few hours ago Horizon Hobby announced the unexpected passing of Joe Ambrose. Joe died in Champaign on January 4, 2019, at the age of 61. Longtime Horizon board member and Chairman of the First Busey Corporation, Greg Lykins said, “With Joe’s passing, we have lost an amazing human being and visionary leader. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Joe have lost a dear friend and inspiring mentor.”
The entire staff at HOBBY MEDIA and XTREME RC CARS would like to give the deepest condolences to Joe’s family and the Horizon’s staff.
29 Dec 2018
If you love RC and stickers, then these huge decal sheets are perfect for you! The RC10 that won the first-ever Ifmar World Championships’s back in 1985, Jay Halsey’s awesome RC10 is now available in these fantastic decal sheets, Nine decals per sheet alone with Ikesink logos and our #eatsleepdrawrc hashtag.
27 Dec 2018
Yokomo announced the release of their New 2019 Factory Team line of apparel that consists of premium T-Shirts (with sizes that can fit everyone: from small to 3XL), Hoodies (Small to 3XL), Snapback Hats and Pit Mats.
This is the Yokomo Racing Factory Snap Back Hat in black with an embroidered logo on the front. The embroidery gives the logo a dimensional appearance, that looks 3D!
25 Dec 2018
All HobbyMedia staff wish you a very Merry Christmas and super happy Holidays! We hope that Santa will bring you all the RC models that you requested!
Last week Amazon, the e-commerce giant founded by Jeff Bezos, announced the all new AWS DeepRacer: a 1/18th scale radio-controlled, four-wheel drive car, complete with a new racing league (“The world’s first global autonomous racing league, open to anyone”). What exactly is this scale car from Amazon? First, it’s autonomous, and there isn’t a radio control. So how people will compete? Simple, young coders can develop the program that will drive the car: the AWS DeepRacer is a scale car designed to get customers to adopt reinforcement learning.
The DeepRacer is controlled by an Intel Atom processor (that runs Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Robot Operating System, and the Intel OpenVino computer vision toolkit) and mounts a 4 megapixel camera with 1080p resolution, WiFi board and multiple USB ports.
