Constructing a Wall climber

[Wice]

Inspired by the Hanging Mun colony, this is the first version of my wall climber, affectionately named the 'Crawler'. This is a very early prototype, just to test if this idea would work.

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Edited August 10, 2013 by Wice

[M4ck]

Really interesting maybe I should start using some robotics parts mod myself for that wall base of mine?... By the way, such configuration(2 sides of 2xKAS) could be used to make a pretty well working aerial-tramway-like platform - have one side anchored to the wall, other - to the ground, at about 45* angle, also create two action groups:

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• 1. side retract, 2. side extend
  
• 1. side extend, 2. side retract
  

This way you can slide it along the cables. It can go horribly wrong sometimes, but in right configuration works rather nicely

Edited August 10, 2013 by M4ck

[Wice]

Really interesting maybe I should start using some robotics parts mod myself for that wall base of mine?... By the way, such configuration(2 sides of 2xKAS) could be used to make a pretty well working aerial-tramway-like platform - have one side anchored to the wall, other - to the ground, at about 45* angle, also create two action groups:

• 
  
• 1. side retract, 2. side extend
  
• 1. side extend, 2. side retract
  

This way you can slide it along the cables. It can go horribly wrong sometimes, but in right configuration works rather nicely

Yeah, I'm working on something like that in my mind as well, thinking out how and where I'd make such a thing...

A quick peek at the Mark II of my Crawler:

Edited August 10, 2013 by Wice

[Geschosskopf]

Congrats! I was playing with such a thing myself the other day. I found that it helped to have the KAS units on the centerline, though. That way, when you decoupled 1 grapple to start climbing with the other, the whole vehicle didn't swing like a pendulum and toss the Kerbal off.

[Wice]

Congrats! I was playing with such a thing myself the other day. I found that it helped to have the KAS units on the centerline, though. That way, when you decoupled 1 grapple to start climbing with the other, the whole vehicle didn't swing like a pendulum and toss the Kerbal off.

Got any pictures of this? Before I decouple the hooks though, I move the arms in such a way that I can decouple the hooks without the craft swinging at all