This episode was amazing as always. That truck looks great. And the control room looks awesome too. Reminds me of the days working on a warship and the control room had blinking lights for all the different valves etc. The comment about being a scada engineer and setting up the programmable logic controllers. Now I see where you get all your inspiration. I swear all the best builders in this game are engineers in real life lol. Looking forward to the next episode.
Two ideas for the truck: merge blocks could be better than the mag plate. Half scaffold blocks make better steps than the barred windows. Love the series so far.
Glad you're enjoying it! I always forget about the scaffolding, I will give it a look! Someone else suggested the merge block, I am wary of Clang, but will look into it.
For my inventory sorting systems to avoid the cycling issue with sorter blocks, I often connect all my storage with one conveyer line to each cargo container group and on that line have a split that runs parallel for a few blocks then remerges with the main conveyer line then in the parallel split section, have a connector valve on one line and the sorter on the other. That way when I activate the sorters, I have it set to simultaneously disconnect the connector valve and vis versa. Love your analog status and control system, I usually do something similar but I've never gone in to so much detail. Very cool. Love the truck! Another fun project I like to do in the same vein is making something similar to those tractor vehicles that taxi aircraft at airports for moving large ships around a landing zone and into and out of hangars.
That is a great idea with the valving. I have a feeling I will have a subterranean plumbing rework once I get the storage warehouse built. Thank you for the suggestion!
Now that you've made the HEMTT, you can make a variety of palletized loads for it. Like a battery one that you just drop off hooked up to the turrets, or even a complete turret system-as-pallet. You can also make a travel bunker/cabin for exploration or prospecting. Modularity is fun.
Just found your channel and absolutely loved this episode! Will definitely be catching up on the previous episodes in the series over the next few days. I like the theme that you have. It's great to hear your thinking process throughout the builds too 👌 That 8x8 is awesome, both in aesthetics and how it functions. I would add extendable support legs (pistons + mag plates) to the 8x8 for that extra stability when loading the cargo. Can't wait for the next one! 🙂🙂
If you want it, an O2 gen fits right behind the front connector on the bed and you could put A/C in your cabins, and fill tanks and bottles on the road. I've thought about a design like this for a long time but was never brave enough to try to make it work. Great job.
Discovered you through Aegirs most recent video and immediately binged the entire Martian Engineering playlist. Love your videos! Looking forward to the next uploads :D Edit: Could you share your wheel settings? Rovers are always a challenge for me and I would be interested to see what settings you used
Awesome stuff sir. I don't see anyone else using the "engineering" aspect of SE to anywhere near the degree that you do. Fun fact for the algorithms: A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. A year on Venus is 224.7 Earth days while a day on Venus is 243 Earth days.
I'm sure enjoying this build series! I don't know if you needed the extra hinge at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2098">34:58</a>. You might be able to control the height with the wheel suspension which you may need to adjust during transport anyway. Just a thought. Your build style is so good, not too busy, just right! I absolutely love that truck!
Instead of a mag plate, could a merged block to a little bit better for the cargo? It would ajuste the alignement. Also it the merge block is further in on the container it would not screw the length.
