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10-03-2012, 11:00 AM
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Audi (http://www.autoblog.com/audi) recently whipped up an interesting piece of advertising in Toronto's Royal Bank Plaza. Partnering with Slot Mods USA, the German manufacturer created a handmade slot car (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/slot car) track, complete with a set of scale Audi A4 (http://www.autoblog.com/audi/a4) models. Slot Mods USA employed some pretty interesting tech to create the cars. Using an industrial laser scanner, the company built a digital outline of the sedan before sending it off to a 3D printer to create the bodyshells. Slot Mods USA then sourced an all-wheel-drive slot car chassis from a separate company.
Given how much emphasis Audi puts on traction, the cars were built with special magnets to keep them planted on the track, and each racer was built with a mini camera that can feed images to an iPad (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/ipad) wirelessly. Drivers control each car via an iPad app, and the camera feed gives operators an idea of what it's like to drive on the scale creation. Check out a few videos of the track below (http://www.motorgen.com/2012/10/03/audi-creates-custom-a4-slot-car-track-w-video/#continued).Continue reading Audi creates custom A4 slot car track [w/video] (http://www.autoblog.com/2012/10/03/audi-creates-custom-a4-slot-car-track-w-video/)
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Audi (http://www.autoblog.com/audi) recently whipped up an interesting piece of advertising in Toronto's Royal Bank Plaza. Partnering with Slot Mods USA, the German manufacturer created a handmade slot car (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/slot car) track, complete with a set of scale Audi A4 (http://www.autoblog.com/audi/a4) models. Slot Mods USA employed some pretty interesting tech to create the cars. Using an industrial laser scanner, the company built a digital outline of the sedan before sending it off to a 3D printer to create the bodyshells. Slot Mods USA then sourced an all-wheel-drive slot car chassis from a separate company.
Given how much emphasis Audi puts on traction, the cars were built with special magnets to keep them planted on the track, and each racer was built with a mini camera that can feed images to an iPad (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/ipad) wirelessly. Drivers control each car via an iPad app, and the camera feed gives operators an idea of what it's like to drive on the scale creation. Check out a few videos of the track below (http://www.motorgen.com/2012/10/03/audi-creates-custom-a4-slot-car-track-w-video/#continued).Continue reading Audi creates custom A4 slot car track [w/video] (http://www.autoblog.com/2012/10/03/audi-creates-custom-a4-slot-car-track-w-video/)
Audi creates custom A4 slot car track [w/video] (http://www.autoblog.com/2012/10/03/audi-creates-custom-a4-slot-car-track-w-video/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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