whipnet

NASA contacted me about a month ago on rccoh.com to help them with some demonstrations for the public using rock crawlers. We attached a plate and a camera to my AX10 and controlled it remotely from a remote cockpit in the back of a high tech van. Pretty cool stuff.

NASA Rock Crawler Demo in Houston

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Stangas

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absolutely awesome....

that would be such a kewl project, something i bet many of us would be envious about.

Goodluck

whipnet

Just finished building the Killer Krawler that NASA will use for their demo purposes. From here they will add a plate on top that will hold a 3 camera setup, robotic arm, and GPS device and more.

Here are a couple of pictures and then a link to the build for those interested.









Killer Krawler build with pics

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blukon98

Thats wild!

Beauregard

iTrader: (4)

Thats great.. When I first saw the Crawlers my fist though was NASA needs this..

Well now they have you..

Thanks for sharing. Awesome..

whipnet

Thanks guys!! I just picked up the plate for it yesterday. I am also converting it to 4WS for them as well.

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whipnet

Hey guys,
Here is an official video of the rover and helicopter they have setup. This year’s Innovation Day will be May 4th and they are adding a robotic arm on top of the rover that will be moving rocks around as well as placing them in box we are putting on top of my crawler. I’ll be sure to update with plenty of pics and video afterwards.

NASA Innovation Rover and Heli Video

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outoforder

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Nice this looks sick

whipnet

This years innovation day at JSC is this Wednesday. They have added a robotic arm to the rear of the Killer Krawler. It's controlled separately by a game controller. They will use it to pick up rocks and place them into a box that will be on my AX10.

Here is a picture of it in all of it's gear and a link to more pics. I'll be sure to post pics after Innovation Day.

http://www.rccoh.com/rc.rock.crawlin...botic.arm.html


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highlucks

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Will NASA be staying with the Novak running gear, all that weight high up I am kind of inclined to either say that this is BS or the krawler is going to be on its lid in the first 15 minutes.

whipnet

They added some high compression springs. I'll have some video from today's innovation day at JSC including the robotic arm working posted here shortly.

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whipnet

Innovation Day was today at Johnson Space Center here in Houston. Here are a couple of videos and pics showing off the new robotic arm they installed.

NASA Innovation Day 2011 Pics and Videos <--



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