Look at here!!!
http://www.adrirobot.it/sojourner/rover_sojourner.htm

Translated in english:
Google translation

It's so cool, really wonderful but very expensive (665 euro).

Is sold in Italy in the newspaper kiosks.. a part every week (or two.. I don't know).

Ale

WOAHHH....

I hope to hell that that gets to the UK in some way.

Doug

Selling piece by piece thats a smart way of selling it with THAT pricetag.
I sure would like one also - only wonder if they also will sell a Delta launcher in the same affordable piecemal way.

Super Cool

All we need is a MER like that with some sand and a rock garden

and then NONE of US will ever be heard from again

as we endlessly plan every conceiveable path into and around Victoria, the Promised Land and beyond !!

bring it ON

That sounds like it'd the distributed-computing version of MER navigation.



Quite an impressive model, though it sounds more like a fully functional rover.

It looks like they intend to sell it in 7 chunks of 90 odd euros.

Can anyone who speaks italian help me find out how to subscribe?

I've emailed the contact page to see what they say.

I HAVE TO BUILD ONE (and customize it a bit to look a bit better )

Doug

I could buy the release with the first piece and check if there is a postcard for subscribers!
Anyway the editor is DeAgostini and there is a UK website.
Contact me with an email or a PM. I'll help you!!

Excuse me, I'm wrong... It seems that the editor is Peruzzo and not DeAgostini.

Look better??? What the heck are you going to do, add a genuine working Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer?


I wonder how much they'd charge for a similar version of the MER rovers, or the MSL.

Oh - a bit of tweaking here and there

The thing with this is that you can do a 1:1 scale and not be totally oversized for a home project - MER would be too big at 1:1

Doug

Not for my garage Doug ...