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This may sound silly, but: The closest I've coming to building a "robot" was a simple little arduino kit. The kit was terrible, the parts defective, and you can imagine I was pretty sick of troubleshooting it after a time. These are things happening on my workbench with a small amount of automation code. I'd have been thrilled if it had just worked as designed. Now, take three robots. One is wheeled, one flies by rot…
Observations Open source bits and shout out: - The rover has an Intel-based PC running Linux. - The video is compressed using FFmpeg. - https://youtu.be/gYQwuYZbA6o?t=4027 Images and Video and Data! - 30GB of data. 23 000 images - https://youtu.be/gYQwuYZbA6o?t=562 Cam Fail on Descent: - 1 of 3 cameras failed when the mortar/parachute fired. - Some other items were damaged/disrupted during the firing as well – not de…
Were there any scientific utility to these payloads, or were they added in order to create some spacecraft porn? How much did the equipment for this weigh? IIRC, a downward facing camera is useful for precisely locating the landing location, but I'm having trouble seeing a purpose for the upward facing camera besides getting cool sky-crane video.
"ready to begin seeking the signs of past life." This is a brilliant engineering feat but I don't agree with the premise of that statement. This is NASA's own mission statement: "The goal of the Mars Exploration Program is to explore Mars and to provide a continuous flow of scientific information and discovery through a carefully selected series of robotic orbiters, landers and mobile laboratories interconnected by a…
For some reason I find it unlikely we will find life, and I'm probably wrong. But I also get the feeling from the missions that unless there have been life, there is no reason to go to Mars. I mean there are so many reasons to go there even if we never find signs of life.
One of the engineers said that the parachute's patterns was both for visually determining the orientation (with computer vision), but also hinted there was some secret message in it. (at 19:34 in the livestream)
The most astounding (but logical) thing to me is that those guys are looking at that maneuver without being able to do anything to correct any error. Literally a recording from the past.
This may sound silly, but: The closest I've coming to building a "robot" was a simple little arduino kit. The kit was terrible, the parts defective, and you can imagine I was pretty sick of troubleshooting it after a time. These are things happening on my workbench with a small amount of automation code. I'd have been thrilled if it had just worked as designed. Now, take three robots. One is wheeled, one flies by rot…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe that's what Elon has planned for the back side of the Starlink v2.0 satellites - to create an Earth-sized massively distributed phased array and get a super-high-bandwidth downlink from Mars.
Wow. That's not how any of that works.
This was recorded by a computer running Linux, using ffmpeg. Embedded Intel system with fairly stock cameras. "the first open source linux box running on the surface of Mars" "thank you to the open source community for allowing us to use your amazing software" Per their press conference today, in the Q&A section. https://youtu.be/gYQwuYZbA6o?t=4025