Post your Rover MEGATHREAD

[HuBo]

My Minmus-Base has a new garage building now:

And my expedition to Duna has two new "Warthog" designed rovers:

Sadly this rover is too light, every braking ends with a "stoppie". But it accelerates very fast, so it is a working design. Maybe it needs a trailer with science stuffs inside?

[Pontiac]

My Minmus-Base has a new garage building now:

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/579022447022013961/03812DB476F27861AAFC6A51CF8B15EE32CB2E01/

Sadly this rover is too light, every braking ends with a "stoppie". But it accelerates very fast, so it is a working design. Maybe it needs a trailer with science stuffs inside?

Why not turn the brakes off on the front tires? It'll decrease your stopping capabilities significantly, however, your rover won't flip.. You could also perhaps setup an action group to enable/disable/toggle the different pairs of brakes. That way if you have to go backwards, you hit a button and the front wheels are brakes while your rear wheels are free to turn, and another button will do the reverse. Then if you want to lock all four up, use the brake button on the UI to turn them all on or off.

[HuBo]

Why not turn the brakes off on the front tires? It'll decrease your stopping capabilities significantly, however, your rover won't flip.. You could also perhaps setup an action group to enable/disable/toggle the different pairs of brakes. That way if you have to go backwards, you hit a button and the front wheels are brakes while your rear wheels are free to turn, and another button will do the reverse. Then if you want to lock all four up, use the brake button on the UI to turn them all on or off.

I did not thought about this problem when I planned this rover, this "feature" appeared during live testing on Duna. But this is not the first thing I forgot before going to a great journey, like once forgetting the ladders from a lander on Eve, and after EVA the Kerbal just stood there, cursing the spacecraft designer.

[DomDiaemus]

Rover in probe mode

Rover in probe mode

Rover in rover mode

SkyCrane Lab rover delivery system

[LitaAlto]

My first relatively successful rover landing. I like the overall design but it was top-heavy, so I removed the central octagonal strut and dropped the main RCS tank to take its place. I also got rid of the round RCS tanks as I didn't even touch them during descent. It probably could use more batteries, and I think I need redundant solar panel arrays since--oops!--I broke mine five minutes after touchdown.

I may come up with a delivery scaffolding as well, with chutes and legs, that would gently drop the rover onto the ground upon touchdown. That would save wear and tear on the wheels. Maybe add docking ports and batteries and larger solar panels, so I could reduce the number of solar panels on the rover itself. Not sure yet.

[Darklaser72]

My Minmus-Base has a new garage building now:

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/579022447046383132/2EF533A21C2BEE395605453288A6B959FFA28A14/

http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/579022447046451796/8AACDA56A68CBF35127DA5289703343A3526B07B/

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/579022447046452958/A8810E0799663E13C59EF621A8911F256519F2D6/

http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/579022447046384665/5B9CA9EC4D82AD4B396BBC26ECDFAD73810BB2D6/

And my expedition to Duna has two new "Warthog" designed rovers:

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/579022447022008367/11D6F11E626DF311E0416CEFC156B4617F854CAE/

http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/579022447022011460/DFD4D1B7D19A447C6447F9ADBEC18AF428D32EC2/

http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/579022447022012779/99910448EF304039173B06693B20B3D74360401A/

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/579022447022013961/03812DB476F27861AAFC6A51CF8B15EE32CB2E01/

Sadly this rover is too light, every braking ends with a "stoppie". But it accelerates very fast, so it is a working design. Maybe it needs a trailer with science stuffs inside?

Love the rovers! Mind if I try to recreate them with a little twist? I might not do as good a job as you with the looks/aesthetics, but I'd like to make a few variations with trailers

[Darklaser72]

These are some crazy rovers 0.0

Well, here's my contribution:

The BOXX-CART UT5 and UT5 Bulldozer:

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/2301/0hv7.png

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/5918/v1di.png

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/7075/vmbt.png

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/1448/q08u.png

They both seat 5 kerbals and have full ''tactical gear'' - all small science gadgets that you may need ^^

(craft files are here, if you want them :3):http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/59515-Showcase-Living-it-UP!-on-the-Mun-my-new-base-3

I love the bulldozer and extra-battery variations! For some reason, variations of an initial concept are some of my favorite things to make/see others construct.

[HuBo]

Love the rovers! Mind if I try to recreate them with a little twist? I might not do as good a job as you with the looks/aesthetics, but I'd like to make a few variations with trailers

Sure, if you send me an address, I could even send you the subassembly files for these rovers (but only on Friday).

[Stahlwerk]

This bad boy is the "Titan", a mobile H3/He3/Antimatter production facility.

Still needs some tweaking, but serves well as a proof-of-concept.

Now to make a nuclear powered electric VTOL to transport Stuff to and from it...

P.S:

I hope this also counts as a rover?

Edited May 20, 2014 by Stahlwerk

[Spacepigu]

Nah, just as long as it, you know, ROVES!

I rave to rove!

[MisterBennock]

Hey guys, I was wondering how you keep your vehicles from just rolling around. Either I haven't found the handbrake yet or it's just not possible. For some crafts I just use the mini lander legs as kind of anchors, but that can't be a solution.

[Spartwo]

To the tight of the altitude readout there are 3 buttons Lights on top, gear in the middle, and brakes on the bottom. Pressing B turns on the brakes temporarily but using the button keeps it on until instructed otherwise.

EDIT: I maked this.

Edited May 26, 2014 by Spartwo

[MisterBennock]

Thanks, Spartwo, didn't realize this. I am always under the impression that it doesn't matter with which input device I turn some function on.

[Pontiac]

The thing I do with my top-heavy-liable-to-roll-forward-when-braking rovers is I disable the forward brakes. Time and distance to stop is longer, but zero chance of sending the cruiser into an unintended cartwheel.

[Majorjim!]

Hey guys, I was wondering how you keep your vehicles from just rolling around. Either I haven't found the handbrake yet or it's just not possible. For some crafts I just use the mini lander legs as kind of anchors, but that can't be a solution.

If by this, you mean tipping over, there are a few things you can do to minimize this:

-Build the rover with a low as possible center of gravity (low to the ground). This is more important for low gravity bodies.

-If using the small rover wheels try to position them forwards. or outwards.This will make it more stable.

-widen the wheel track and or wheel base.

-reaction wheels!

-RCS can be used to stabilize a rover.

-Test, test, test!

MJ

[Uncle Mort]

Jeb checks out his new rover:

(needs CrewManifest to move between the modules)

[Overfloater]

Astro-Truck.

[Mesklin]

Rover "Longnose", equipped landing engines and two sizes docking ports (dV - ~2.5 km/s, enough for Mun, Moho, Dres, Vall landing and return to orbit)

[Spacepigu]

Since someone else made a walker, i thought that i would make one too! i like how it turned out. It can actually walk. Have not tested it on the moon yet, but i will soon!

Here it is!

In the process of walking/scooting:

Soon...

[SlimeCrusher]

I've wanting to post something here for a while, but all my rovers are quite dissapointing, so i decided to make a walker... Then i notice someone already posted a walker right on top of my other walker... Anyways, here it is, on Eve!

Had a couple of issues, as for example having my landing legs upside-down, forgetting parachutes (Didn't knew where to land on, choosen Eve randomly, then noticed i didn't had chutes... While doing my circularization burn...)

2 things to mention, it was my first time landing on Eve, and for the sake of just showing/testing the "rover" in another enviroment, i cheated my way there using infinite fuel

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[Biotronic]

Thanks to ZodiusInfuser's modeling efforts, I spent a few hours yesterday perfecting my Kethane rover (Warning: contains spoiders):

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And its little babies:

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Mod list (beeg spoider):

• Infernal Robotics and Rework for the legs.
  
• Habitat Pack for the pod opisthosoma (tail, abdomen, icky ball thing).
  
• KAS for attachment spinneret and crane on opisthosoma.
  
• Kethane for the main body tank and the drill 'fangs'.
  
• SCANsat for GPS and anomaly tagging.
  

And small spoider:

• Infernal Robotics and Rework for the legs.
  
• KAS for attachment spinneret.
  
• B9 Aerospace for RCS thrusters.
  
• KW Rocketry for the head.
  

Now to get the blasted things to move...

Also, does anyone know of a spherical container where I could put a dozen or so of the babies and release them when needed?

[Megalodon 720]

Does this count? It's a cube that rolls around on a planetary surface.

[Shna_na]

Does this count? It's a cube that rolls around on a planetary surface.

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I'd say it counts! I like the idea but never used it, simply because of the difficulties involved in getting it moving and controlling it. How did you overcome this? (If you even did, that is ).

[Spartwo]

Never made a rollver since torque could stack.

[Megalodon 720]

I'd say it counts! I like the idea but never used it, simply because of the difficulties involved in getting it moving and controlling it. How did you overcome this? (If you even did, that is ).

The plates are held together firmly and there are 3 layers of them, hence it is almost indestructible, i did have to tweak the number of reaction wheels a few times though.