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Sawppy the Rover

• msadowski 8y ago
  This rover has been inspired by NASA's Open Source rover: https://opensourcerover.jpl.nasa.gov/ https://opensourcerover.jpl.nasa.gov/. A shameless plug: If you like this kind of content then you will probably enjoy my Weekly Robotics newsletter, where this link appeared last week: http://weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-12 http://weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-12
• pi-rat 8y ago
  Always wanted to build one of these :) I assume the servo motors make it quite noisy?
  • msadowski 8y ago
    Me too! I think this will be the one for me. There is a video[1] referenced in the repo and it indeed appears to be quite noisy! [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acANiRFg-qA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acANiRFg-qA
  • Cthulhu_ 8y ago
    That's okay, the atmosphere on Mars is thin so sound isn't as loud / doesn't carry as far. (I think, I don't actually know how these things work)
• arendtio 8y ago
  That video at the bottom of the page made me understand that weird 6 wheels design. Cool :-D
  • anotheryou 8y ago
    and showed a maneuver you woudn't see nasa doing on mars :)