6 Wheel Rover for Lidar by davidbec08

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

This is a large 6 wheel skid steer vehicle, printed using PLA, designed to carry a Zeb1 Lidar. It is very similar in concept to my tracked rover (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1517266). The intent of the new design is to make a more stable platform than the tracked rover and to carry a larger weight.
You can see a short movie of it carrying the old tracked rover up some stairs (just to see how it handles weight on rough terrain):
https://youtu.be/MkknyaAgmtA
or here:
https://youtu.be/0b5K6UrOBOI
or here:
https://youtu.be/R8GE0YVIG2U
or here:
https://youtu.be/07g7hCGhkP0
It makes use of a geared 12V motor at each hub (02 x MEC-30148 : 131:1 Metal Gearmotor 37D x 57L mm (12V), 02 x MEC-30182 : Pololu Universal Aluminum Mounting Hub for 6mm Shaft M3 Holes) and a suspension system a little similar to the Mars Rover (for fun, but it can climb big steps). It screws together, on to 2x aluminium RHS chassis rails.
You'll notice the FPV camera, RC etc are all from the tracked rover (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1517266).
I've included the Rhino file so you can edit it as you like.