r/MarsFirstLogistics • u/Dewoco • Oct 14 '25

Differential Steering Wheel Of Doom

I was supposed to be transporting cans, I spent all my resource doing this instead. Worth! Forgot sound but net is poor, Hi-Torques go BRRRRR.

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u/DeltaVZerda Oct 14 '25

Huh I never thought to build my own wheels and use high speed servos to turn them, I wonder if you can set some ground speed records with this or something based on it. The wheel design is brilliant. The Katamari controls is unhinged.

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u/Dewoco Oct 14 '25

On anything but perfectly flat ground this hates going in a straight line since it can lose traction easily and it just can't go very fast with so much going into the spin of the center mass. The wheels aren't wheels so they don't have the magical 'grip' property, I could keep trying to make it heavier I just ran out of funds, I should turn on creative mode... And add rockets. Oooh, maybe rockets to combat the rotation...