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Behold! An Artist Rendering of the MSL Rover Landing
The fine folks over at the Jet Propulsion Lab have put together a video showing us what the landing of the ‘Curiosity’ rover will look like. Continue reading
NASA ‘Spirit’ Mars Rover May Be Dead
The Mars ‘Spirit’ rover, having been silent for over a year, appears to finally be officially dead. Continue reading
Sony’s Got The Best Controller
Stuart was in the market for a more comfortable controller for his rover platform. Unfortunately, all R/C controllers are flimsy and not so conforming to one’s hands. So instead, Stuart used a PlayStation 2 gamepad and totally DIY’ed himself a new controller for the rover. Operating wirelessly, the PlayStation controller controls the rover in such a way that you feel like you’re playing a video game. Could it be because this controller is a gamepad? We’ll never truly know. Nintendo... Continue reading
Land Rovers Grow Up
Land Rover is coming up on its 60th anniversary and to celebrate the occasion, sculpture artist Gerry Judah has created nothing short of a masterpiece. This 34 meter-high installation at the Goodwood Festival of Speed features several, from what I can make out, Range Rovers (?) scaling the structure. The entire thing weighs an astronomical 120 tons and is on display for all to see. Little is known on how the feat was accomplished, but one can imagine it took... Continue reading
