[Dprglist] DPRGlist Digest, Vol 58, Issue 6
Thalanayar Muthukumar
tnkumar at gmail.com
Sun Jul 11 18:41:13 PDT 2021
Thanks Murray for sharing about exomy and Gobilda and the discord channel. I was not aware of these and will look around.
Regards.
- Kumar
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> 1. Thanks to all of you for making the SRS Robothon Exhibition
> event a success today (July 10th)!!!!!!!! (dsmith164 at yahoo.com)
> 2. MARS Perseverance Rover replica (Thalanayar Muthukumar)
> 3. Re: MARS Perseverance Rover replica (Murray Altheim)
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> Subject: [Dprglist] Thanks to all of you for making the SRS Robothon
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> It is truly awesome to work with such a great group of people like
> yourselves - it makes all the back-end work I do (and the SRS) all
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> I look forward to the next event!!!!!
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> Regards, Donna
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> From: Thalanayar Muthukumar <tnkumar at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Dprglist] MARS Perseverance Rover replica
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOZZMsMAGh0&t=276s
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> I wonder if anyone has considered something like this.
> I just came across this today and consider it an ambitious project, but was
> interested to pursue an even smaller model than what this person has done.
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> Doing it alone seems daunting though.
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> Regards.
> - Kumar
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> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2021 19:46:47 +1200
> From: Murray Altheim <murray18 at altheim.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Dprglist] MARS Perseverance Rover replica
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>> On 11/07/21 3:29 pm, Thalanayar Muthukumar via DPRGlist wrote:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOZZMsMAGh0&t=276s <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOZZMsMAGh0&t=276s>
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>> I wonder if anyone has considered something like this.
>> I just came across this today and consider it an ambitious project,
>> but was interested to pursue an even smaller model than what this > person has done.
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> Hi Kumar,
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> Are you aware of the ExoMy robot project? It's a much smaller Mars rover
> that uses servo motors for both steering and locomotion, is almost entirely
> 3D printed, and the design doesn't by default even include any sensors,
> just a camera, so it's more suited for tele-robotics. It also hews to the
> ExoMars rover's triple-bogie rather than the NASA/JPL rover's rocker-bogie
> suspension mechanism, as that's significantly easier to build.
>
> The ExoMy project has a Discord channel so you can join the community at:
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> https://discord.gg/NehSSeux
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> and a home page at:
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> https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/3D_print_your_own_Mars_rover_with_ExoMy
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>> Doing it alone seems daunting though.
> Agreed.
>
> So there are ways to build something that can still be called a Mars
> rover without trying to build a smaller version of the Perseverence
> rover, which I would agree would be very ambitious for one person. The
> ExoMy is but one. There are a lot of Mars rover projects out on the
> web, and I'm myself am even in the early design phase of a Mars rover
> that will use the GoBilda hardware for much of its structural and
> locomotion, and 22mm diameter motors to give you an idea of the scale:
> slightly larger than the ExoMy. I'm guessing that it will cost me
> around $3000 by the time I'm done, so I'll be doing that over a longer
> period of time. And I'll be developing my own OS for it so yes, I agree
> it's pretty daunting a task. One step at a time...
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> But we're in robotics because it's hard, not because it's easy, right?
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> Cheers,
>
> Murray
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> Murray Altheim <murray18 at altheim dot com> = = ===
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