I’ve started to plan for the next games in 2015, although I’m not actually sure when or where it’s going to be. I haven’t been in Calgary much lately, so I can’t attend the Saturday WCRS build days, and the rover is too big to haul around every week anyway.Just for fun I looked at […]
I was contemplating adding an arm to the front of the rover the other day. Some back of an envelope math: a smallish arm (under a meter long), able to reach to the ground a bit ahead of the body (in view of the mast cameras) = quite a torque on the suspension differential when […]
If you want some terrific entertainment, head over to http://marsandme.blogspot.ca. Or, if you’d prefer one of the best bits of documentation on real Mars rovers head here instead: http://marsandme.blogspot.ca (or is that http://marsandme.blogspot.com in the USA?) I’m not joking, that’s the blog of Scott Maxwell, one of the MER Rover Planners, or ‘Rover Drivers’. He intentionally delayed it 5 […]
It’s Thanksgiving in Canada, in case you’re wondering. For reasons I don’t care about, it’s not on the same day as the US version, which is fine with me because it makes for a long weekend this month, and I’ll get enough time off soon enough, but the break is nice to have now. I’ve […]