Make This Dongle to Play VRC Pro with a Real RC Transmitter

VRC Pro is an RC car racing simulator for PCs and you can play it with a regular gamepad or even a keyboard. But the whole point is to simulate driving an RC car, so the experience is much better when you use an RC transmitter to do that. To help everyone get that experience, DynaMight designed this USB dongle specifically for VRC Pro.

DynaMight says that the VRC Pro folks used to sell an official dongle, but stopped making them years ago. Other options are available, but expensive. DynaMight’s dongle is both affordable to build and easy to use.

Its purpose is to read the signals from an RC receiver and translate them into USB HID inputs for the computer to read and VRC Proto respond to. Just plug the jumper wires into your RC receiver, connect that to your RC transmitter, and start playing. You’ll be able to control the virtual RC car using your real-life RC transmitter!

All you need to build this is an inexpensive Waveshare RP2040-Zero (or an even more inexpensive clone), some jumper wires, and the 3D-printable enclosure provided by DynaMight. Then simply plug that into USB and copy over the UF2 file, which is the firmware coded by DynaMight. Afterwards, you can tie your RC transmitter inputs into VRC Pro using the in-game menus.

This seems like a particularly cool setup for people who want to practice RC car racing at home in a virtual environment.