In this week's installment of our Asimov comic, it appears that the moon may not be a lifeless as once though.
The ongoing comic adventure of our rover Asimov continues with this weeks episode: http://www.ptscientists.com/asimov/the-legendary-lunoids-part-ii
Check out the new Asimov comic! http://www.ptscientists.com/asimov/shortcomings/
We've teamed up with Beware comics to bring you a weekly comic series staring our rover, Asimov Jr.
Do you love the idea of an open space industry and have a knack for art or writing? We're looking for new members for our team to help with telling our story in written and visual forms. Artists and writers WANTED! Email mike@ptscientists.com.
It's always an exciting week at Part Time Scientists. The tech teams are busy getting ready for radiation testing that's coming up in a few weeks.
Er, rads are rad? (do people even still say "rad" any more?)
Last weekend we had some cool new motor controls that are now in our rover. We've got some cool video to post next week of our production rover working very nicely at just under 1 meter per second. That's practically race car speed for rovers!
We've got some new controller circuits and everything is working perfectly! These will help us improve the speed and stability of our rover.
Our rover is designed to do high speed fully autonomous mapping of an area in real time and making path finding decisions based on input from our advanced camera and sensor system.
So overall these new electronics will help us to improve the speed and stability of the R3 Rover. Not bad for a weekend project!
Happy Friday!
We've had a busy week.
First, we had to move some meetings around because of a hurricane:
http://www.ptscientists.com/2012/10/29/hurricane-sandy/
Then we started recieving all sorts of requests to give talks to kids who want to become serious engineers after posting about a long trip Michael M took to Grenna Denmark and blew a group of students away.
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