What are the basic needs of a rover?

[capi3101]

@Silverchain - try slapping a structural panel on the bottom of the probe core; probe cores in general have low impact tolerance, and sliding along the ground counts as an "impact".

[Silverchain]

A heavy rocket sled, stuck on a mysterious obstacle at the edge of the runway...

My attempt at a walker failed.

The ScienceRoller - a relatively tough device, capable of rolling indefinitely at a stately 3.9ms-1. It does hills quite well.

[Panzerbeard]

The ScienceRoller - a relatively tough device, capable of rolling indefinitely at a stately 3.9ms-1. It does hills quite well.

That's cute.

[Radiokopf]

Ill count that as Wheels.

So we are down to 2 Wheels

[peadar1987]

The bare necessities of a rover are, wheels, battery, and body. Past that everything else is a luxury.

Battery as a structural member? I reckon it can be done.

[Prime flux]

I did build 2 minimalistic science rovers.

This comes equipped for science mission with all 4 sensors

Barebone Rover mk I 0.26t

Barebone Rover mk II 0.32t

Without the sensors and the antenna it is only 7 parts.

If you can accept a bit more clipping here is a 5 part rover (0.2t). It is of course very limited in range and usefullness

Edited October 18, 2013 by Prime flux

[Andrew Hansen]

Another thing that I just learned just today is that if you're building with the ruggegized wheels in the SPH, you have to rotate them so that the black bolts on top are facing upwards - like below. (Or else they won't get you anywhere at all.)