u/LikeShrekButGayer

BF just got me this and I adore it. Its a 4X4 with street tires and barely any ground clearance, But its pretty fun to climb hills with it just because its so pathetic that it feels like a huge achievement when it accomplishes *anything* (said with love, i swear 🤣)

BUT now that im kind of attached to it I wanna make sure i can keep it running for a long while. All the electronics are pretty standard for 24th scale cars, but im not sure about the suspension and the rest of the drivetrain. at a glance it seems like a bit of a mish mash of parts copied from Axial and FMS crawlers, but i dont have any trucks from those brands to actually test compatibility.

Has anyone done any successful repairs on one of these JXC vans? Would any of the metal upgrade parts from the big brands fit this thing? Will i need to invest in a 3D printer and roll my own parts?

Sooo I want to bring my system to a synth jam at the end of the month, and i dont want to pack an external sequencer.

Initially the plan was to feed Amnis with a pair of clock-synced LFOs to generate a gate pattern and pitch CV, assuming that if it fed it something simple and repetitive, the output would be a simple repetitive pattern. The problem is that after several hours of tinkering, I have yet to find a patch that produces anything but random mess. I know there are several modules that can generate techno basslines in various different ways, but dont have the money or desire right now to buy any new modules.

Does anyone know a way that I can work with what I have to make basslines on the fly that have a consistent and interesting rhythmic pattern?

EDIT: I found my problem!!! Initially I was Patching the Midi clock from my case into the Clock input of Amnis, then id take an LFO channel from Stages, synced to a Dotted 16th note division of the clock, and feed that to the Data input of Amnis. The output of this would be a steady syncopated pulse with no pitch variation, which i thought was boring so id patch one of Amnis' own gate outputs into the XOR input to spice up the pattern. Apparently this feedback patching was the source of the unpredictability! i went back and fed the XOR input with a gate sequence from another module and now i can get interesting, repeating pitch and gate patterns out of the amnis.

... either that or i over-volted the ESC?? not sure, but it stopped getting throttle and the motor was hot after like 5 mins walking the path to the skatepark. acceleration is trashed but the grip on loose dirt is much improved over stock tires and the higher ground clearance is nice for getting over stuff that would scrape the chassis otherwise.

if you wanna try this at home, i think this would seriously whip if it had much more torque at the same speed. would love to see someone run where i have crawled

Monster truck wheels from Injora just came in the mail... didnt check the dimensions before i ordered 😅😅😅

still waiting on parts to fix the gearbox so no test run yet, but if i remember Ill post an update with how these compare performance-wise to the stock tires.

eventually I wanna swap to the longer Micro B chassis and put a panel van body on it to turn this into a sort of Vanessa's Lunchbox tribute, but still looking for a job in my new city so that has to wait