Tag: RC construction equipment

Construction Equipment

Get the latest on construction equipment scale models during these upcoming events

Contractors are well known equipment scale model enthusiasts, but the attraction doesn’t end with them. There’s a global audience for these miniature models, as we detailed in our Model Mania special report last year. Scale models were even a traffic-stopper at this spring’s Intermat trade show, where a detailed diorama took a front-center position as […]

June 16, 2015

Construction Equipment

How a machinist 3D printed a Caterpillar D10 dozer (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

3D printing is one of those amazing, futuristic technologies that has somehow snuck beneath the radar of the majority of the general public. That’s probably because most 3D printing is still done on the small scale and with plastics, but continuing innovation in the field is bringing us closer and closer to the day where […]

June 10, 2015

Construction Equipment

Watch this mini RC Liebherr excavator actually demo a pool with working shears, breaker (PHOTOS)

We’ve seen tiny, remote control models of construction equipment move a fair share of dirt. We’ve even seen one machine of a larger variety dig an actual trench. But, honestly? Compared to what’s going on in the videos of below, that’s all child’s play. Via monsterchannel24’s YouTube channel come three videos, each a few minutes long, […]

May 29, 2015

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS: Detailed RC loaders, cranes and trucks move dirt in their own mini world at Intermat

[imagebrowser id=246] Throughout the Intermat trade show in Paris last week, the first pieces of yellow iron attendees saw as they entered the earthmoving pavilion were a bit on the small side. RELATED >> Model Mania: Construction scale models have fervent collectors both in and out of construction Situated just before the entrance of Hall 5 […]

April 27, 2015

Technology

Xbox-like remote control could make operating construction equipment as easy as playing video games (PHOTOS)

[imagebrowser id=87] Over the years, advances in controls have greatly improved intuitiveness and thus simplified the operation of construction equipment in many cases. Beyond that, ever-improving GPS technology and machines like Komatsu’s intelligent Machine Control dozers and upcoming excavator, point to a not-so-distant future where a lot of operators could be doing so from outside of […]

June 5, 2014