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Projector Mode: Coming Soon

A new chapter of RC racing

Flea Racers projector mode: a track projected onto the ground at a campsite, four people racing

AI render concept — not actual gameplay

Race live with friends IRL & virtually

Your floor, their floor, the same track and the same clock — you see each other's cars run.

Connect with racers around the world

True spec racing — the same car, the same track, the same clock for everyone. May the best driver win.

Multi-projector support

Two or three projectors stitched into one big layout, so the track is as large as the room.

Mix virtual and real racing

Real cars on the projected surface, virtual cars in the same race — same lap counter for both.

Shop — recommended projectors

Short throw
Laser
360° rated
8 ms or less

It has to be rated to point straight down. That is the one that rules everything else out. Most home projectors — good gaming ones included — are only rated for about 15° of tilt, so aiming one at the floor is out of spec no matter what the light source is. What you want is a projector the maker lists for 360° and portrait operation: a sealed laser head that can hang in any orientation, run all day, and never need a lamp.

Then milliseconds. An RC racer has no time for latency — the car has to turn as fast as the wheel does, so input lag is the number to buy on: 8 ms or less, and never above 16. 120 Hz or better keeps the picture up with it. And short throw puts the whole layout on the floor from close up, so nobody walks through the beam.

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Flea Racers projector mode in a hobby shop: six projectors throwing one big track onto the floor, six drivers on the stand

Shop track — AI render concept, not actual gameplay

Multi-projector, one PC

Three projectors throw overlapping light onto the same floor and the game blends them into one big layout — drivers stand above it and look down, the way they do at a real track.

Cell phone or webcam lap counting: Coming Soon

A Flea Racers scoring app that runs the whole race night off the phones already in the room. Mount one high — head height or better, looking down on the track — and it counts the laps. Mount three round the layout and they work as one. No transponders to buy, no loop under the carpet, no laptop.

A phone running the Flea Racers scoring app: running order, lap counts, best and last lap, race clock, and three phones watching the track

Mount it high, looking downNot propped beside the track — a phone down at carpet level sees a couple of feet of floor and nothing else. Up on a tripod, a shelf or the top of the drivers' stand, aimed down, one phone covers a real stretch of layout.
Laps counted for youNo personal transponders, no decoder loop, nothing taped to the car. The phones watch the cars go past and the board keeps itself.
Multi camera avoids blind spotsA pole, a fence post, a corner marshal leaning out over the track — one camera loses the car there, the others do not. Point the next phone at its own stretch, line it up with the floor once, and it joins the race.
Sharp enough for race nightThe camera's delay is the same every single lap, so it cancels straight out of a lap time; what is left is single-digit milliseconds on a lap that takes seconds. Not a personal-transponder system — but honest club timing.
The whole race night, not just the lapsClasses, entries, heats, qualifying and mains, best lap, results — the bookkeeping a club night actually runs on, on the projector, the TV, or any phone in the room.

Complete per-turn race speed data

Did a setup change help or hurt a section? The old ways give you one lap time. With a camera-based system you get full-track telemetry, from the phone in your pocket.

Transponder loop — one point a lap

0 A lap time, and nothing about how you got it. Where the tenth went is a guess.

Flea Racers — the whole lap

0 Position and speed all the way round, corner by corner, at race speed. The tenth has an address.

Three phones, one race

Each phone watches its own stretch. Every crossing lands on the same sheet.

Concept — phone scoring is in development and not yet available.

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