Anki turn in a withering C to slot motorcar with its original effort hardening , yield tiny RC gondola a brain so they could continue on a track without the need for a peg underneath . But withOverdriveslot cars are formally dead now that your track can be any shape you need , complete with atomic number 92 - turns , intersections , and jump .
Firstrevealed earlier this yearahead ofToy Fair 2015 , Anki Overdrive includes many improvements to the caller ’s original race set , but the modular track is unquestionably the freehanded reason to upgrade or finally jump in . The original Anki Drive ’s ellipse cut was a large roll - up mat that took up lot of floor space and provided more of a Nascar experience . If you enjoy mostly making right round , there was a wad to care .
But Overdrive introduces tracks you’re able to ramp up yourself , in almost any layout or physical body , thanks to modular surgical incision bind together with interlock tabs and tops inviolable attractive feature . And because each surgical incision is made from compromising but durable polystyrene , you’re able to now introduce Hill , Allium tricoccum , and even jump off to your custom course .
The machine themselves have also been upgraded . They have the same camera and 50mHz C.P.U. onboard , but they ’ve been made smarter on the software program side of things to calculate for a track that could have a different layout every single time they bucket along . With the original oval track the route never changed , so race strategies were always the same too . But now the railway car have to first represent out every recession , crossroad , and dead - end to come up with strategy on the fly . And that should make race against the AI opponents even more interesting .
to begin with in the twelvemonth Anki would only mistily specify that Overdrive would be available sometime in September , but today the company has revealed that the new $ 150 starter kit will formally go on sales event pop out September 20 . It will derive with 10 pieces of the modular FlexTrack — four straightaways and six 90 - point corners — which is enough to build eight different course out of the box . It also come with two car so you’re able to immediately compete against a protagonist , or with the AI driver .
Anki will also betray cartroad enlargement pack that motley in terms from $ 10 for just a couple of straight sections , to $ 30 for solidification that include accessories for construction start or banked corner to increase the difficultness . And like with the original Anki Drive , extra cars will also be available for $ 50 each , let you cannonball along up to four vehicles at any clip .
If you ’ve got enough floor space , enough money , and enough time , you’re able to construct some genuinely awe-inspiring cart track with Anki Overdrive . The only limitation are the range of Bluetooth from your mobile equipment , or the tiny cars take enough bombardment animation to in reality finish a full lap . [ Anki ]
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