The first Mars rover designed for Earth
Hello everyone! After several years of working on Mars rover prototypes, we – a team of four engineers – decided to launch our own company and our own product!
Turtle Rover – this is the name of our newest baby – it is a remotely controlled four-wheeled robot designed for Earth exploration.
A few words about the robot itself
The rover is designed to drive anywhere you’d prefer not to go alone. Its architecture allows to attach cameras, sensors and your own electronic modules to its body, so you can easily configure it to your own needs. Tweak the inner Raspberry Pi with your own code and fit your own electronics inside the rover watertight storage case.
As the rover is designed to drive on land, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that it allows for more predictable and longer use than drones.
With its on-board camera, Mars-rover suspension and enough power to keep your phone on for a month, it’s you who will be exhausted first, not the rover.
Attach it to your backpack and go to the mountains to explore caves in places no one explored yet. Find old ruins and inspect them with no worry of being stuck in tight passages. Go home and have fun with an open-source code in the soul of the robot to find out how to extend its functionality to the borders.
Why we decided to launch our own company?
Once we made AMA on polish version of reddit (wykop.pl) and people mostly thought this is everything about money. That we have extremely rich investor and get fat salaries. The truth is: all of us quit jobs and focused on this project. We live from our savings and we can only hope we earn some money thanks to this project.
So, most of you will ask: then why?
The answer is simple: we want to create stuff. We were working in corporations, and there, even if you are a designer, you stuck with some small part of a big project which nobody understands and nobody cares. You hit the wall of no-mens, which just want to live from Monday to Friday. We want more. We want to live for more.
If you want to learn more about the project, visit our website :)
P.S. If you subscribe to our newsletter before 22th of August you can enjoy a free remote drive from anywhere in the world :)
How do you like Turtle? Please, let me know, any feedback is more than welcome!
Great post! But the biggest lie of them all is the world could possibly be flat!! Do you think the world is flat? I know this sounds absurd but it's all over net surely it should be looked into. Can you imagine how much money NASA has gone through and they could be full of shit.
Love your project! Upvoted!
It looks very cool. How much does it weigh?
I really like your guys attitudes to do what you want!
Good luck in the future. Followed you :)
Hi @futurethinker!
It weights around 8 (17,5 lbs) and it can carry at least 5 kg of additional equipment :)
And it can drive constantly around 4 hours :)
Very neat! How long is the charge time?
1,5 hours. And the battery is easy to replace, so you can actually work constantly - you replace the battery and the new one will last much longer than needed to recharge the previous one :)
During tests we had actually another problem - if you use your smartphone to control the rover, your phone can sometimes discharge quicker than Turtle :)
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STOPWish you guys the best of luck . Myself am in the very same position ( different technology ) but doing what makes us happy and if can make a living at it . Bonus
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Good luck for you too! Let's push this world forward :)
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