Uni-Roller and Twin-Roller

[Jon144]

Presenting.......

The Future of Rover Technology

The Uni-Roller! And Now Twin-Roller!

The Uni-Roller is a 100% stock Jet-Propelled rover inside of a large freely rotating wheel made of high durability parts.

The Uni-Roller can obtain speeds up to 40 M/S. Unfortunately the faster it goes the greater the force placed on the wheel. The faster the speed the larger the wheel stretches. The more the wheel stretches the likelier the possibility of a mechanical failure resulting in serious damage.

The maximum safe speed on level ground is around 20-30 M/S. It is recommended to make turns under 25 M/S as the small stabilizers on the side cannot keep the craft from flipping on its side at faster speeds.

Download and drive it yourself here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/muxvqi6r9jgaxms/UniRoller.craft?dl=0

The Twin-Roller is a continuation of the Uni-Roller but as it's name suggests... Has two wheels instead of one. All rules that apply to the Uni-Roller apply to the Twin-Roller.

Download the Twin-Roller here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/aydgcht0bljvuoq/Twin-Roller.craft?dl=0

Known Glitch: Since the outside part of the wheel is uncontrolled it will likely be deleted as debris after going back to the space center. If you do not wish this to happen attach a small probe core to the inside portion of the outer wheel or wheels.

Edited May 26, 2015 by Jon144

[Noname117]

This is one of the most creative things I have ever seen in KSP

[problemecium]

Neat! Reminds me of General Grievous's unicycle:

[Nik_601]

Wow! Glad to see somebody has done it! I tried to build it in 0.90, but KSP blew it up everytime after launching

Here's some pics of my experiments:

[Jon144]

The Trial and error that went into making it was infuriating. It took about 12 tries to get it working and then several experiments to get it working to the extent that it does. And yes... I was compelled to build this after re-watching the prequels.

Edited May 25, 2015 by Jon144

[Guest]

Great, now I wanna see someone make a rotor using the narrow band scanner rotation lol

[Jon144]

Great idea!? The moving scanner part actually has a hit-box? If so I will need to exploit this.

[Dman979]

Use this to do the Elcano Challenge XD

[Khobai]

reminds me of that episode of southpark

[Jon144]

Added the Twin-Roller

[Starwhip]

Sooo cool, great work!

[Roflcopterkklol]

Hmm this gives me hope for building a new turbo prop, i was only in the testing stages of this in 0.90 heck i had not even tried to make it fly i only just had the "MOAR POWAA" thing down, the internals just clip through the exterior on it in when you load it in 1.0.2 but by the looks of it i could use the small gear instead of the old gear and it should work, time for testing.

I still love how fast that thing spins... the game cant keep up lol...

[Jon144]

Hmm this gives me hope for building a new turbo prop, i was only in the testing stages of this in 0.90 heck i had not even tried to make it fly i only just had the "MOAR POWAA" thing down, the internals just clip through the exterior on it in when you load it in 1.0.2 but by the looks of it i could use the small gear instead of the old gear and it should work, time for testing.

I still love how fast that thing spins... the game cant keep up lol...

Haha yeah! The old landing gear.... Squad did something funky with their physics with the update. I don't know why or what but the wheels on it just clip into anything they touch now. Luckily the new smaller gears have far more rigid hit-boxes and work well as bearings. Their main problem is they are pretty glitch parts in the editor at least. Whenever you use the sideways/horizontal/vertical move tool they have a habit of snapping into very strange places.

[Jeb Cubed]

Wow, that is awesome. The Twin-Roller kinda looks like a Hailfire droid to me.

[Jon144]

Wow, that is awesome. The Twin-Roller kinda looks like a Hailfire droid to me.

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/7/73/Hailfire_Droid.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070721191456&path-prefix=nl

That was exactly my motivation for it! I kind of wimped out in the development though to make it smaller and simpler for stunts.

[Pds314]

As someone who spends a lot of time on a bicycle, I'm curious how effective and necessary those stabilization wheels are. To me, it seems like this vehicle ought to lean into turns, making them actually a roll hazard during aggressive maneuvering. Have you had any luck controlling it with no training wheels?

[Jon144]

As someone who spends a lot of time on a bicycle, I'm curious how effective and necessary those stabilization wheels are. To me, it seems like this vehicle ought to lean into turns, making them actually a roll hazard during aggressive maneuvering. Have you had any luck controlling it with no training wheels?

Yeah, but it is a lot more hazardous. If you have enough skill though you can take them off.