“We have dirt! It’s been a hectic week, but the regolith is in, and now only the last wall will need to be finished (that is a small job, but I don’t know when it will be completed). I will keep you all posted as to the final completion of the facility. Delivery today was…Continue Reading Summer Update: Testing Facility!
“Update! Here are the first models of the motor housing and conveyor bearing bushing as assembled. They fit well, and I am confident in their load capabilities. The final prototype will use two motor housings and about twenty of the bearing bushings. ” -Mike Hector…Continue Reading Summer Update: Excavator
” I’ve gotten a simple proof of concept for piping commands to a virtual robot in Garry’s Mod from an external program. If we were to replace our current send and receive data to an Arduino code with this pipeline we could control motors and get much of the data our actual sensors will provide us….The…Continue Reading M.A.R.S. Data Pipeline Proof of Concept
Here is the most current design of the excavator. We’ve shifted from a bucket cache to a conveyor cache. The next design iteration will focus on either deployable containment walls or regolith transfer from top of bucket-wheel to conveyor. …Continue Reading Excavator Design
