A 4G Solar Rover To Explore... Earth? Suburbs? Yep!

"whatuptkhere" (whatuptkhere) 06/26/2020 at 02:38 • Filed to: tkirv, solarboi, 4g, 5g, rover, mars rover, solar rover, solar, solar power

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Back in 2016, I decided to try and build a Mars rover, but for Earth. Connecting over the 4G mobile network, I wanted to be able to drive it anywhere, sending it out into the wild for indefinite lengths of time. Solar power was the natural way to do that.

Real life happened, and it’s taken four long years, but finally, SOLARBOI is a real thing. I can’t wait to send it out on a long-term mission. I just gotta find a way to make the missions as exciting for viewers as they are for me ! I’ve really enjoyed driving it around the neighbourhood, but crawling around suburban footpaths while terrified that someone is going to find it doesn’t make a great spectator sport.

Really is awesome to drive, though. I’m hoping I can find some kind of objectives or places to visit that get the audience as excited as I am, without putting the rover at too much risk of public interference. :P Wish me luck!

P .S. if anyone has a lead on a good 5G USB modem, as opposed to those WiFI bricks, let me know. Would be a good boost to the project!

Nom De Plume > whatuptkhere 06/26/2020 at 03:28

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I was having flashbacks to H itchbot reading through this. Thankfully you are in Australia where it will have a chance wandering around in the dark.

OPPOsaurus WRX > whatuptkhere 06/26/2020 at 08:44

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good luck.  unfortunately i see this ending with captain douche stomping it to death.  I dont have the best opinion on humanity at the moment though.  maybe send it out into a deserted area somewhere?

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > whatuptkhere 06/26/2020 at 09:39

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“OK kids, do you want to climb all over the strange government spy drone crawling through the bushes”

The goal should be sneaking up on animals.

shop-teacher > whatuptkhere 06/26/2020 at 10:28

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Neato!

whatuptkhere > Nom De Plume 06/27/2020 at 00:49

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Ha, my fears exactly. That, and it being mistaken for a bomb. 

whatuptkhere > OPPOsaurus WRX 06/27/2020 at 00:49

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Yeah, I think camoflauge is key here.

whatuptkhere > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 06/27/2020 at 00:49

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ahahah. definitely a possibility. 

whatuptkhere > shop-teacher 06/27/2020 at 00:49

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Thanks!

Spoon II > whatuptkhere 06/27/2020 at 00:52

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That’s awesome! Congrats on the project completion!

whatuptkhere > Spoon II 06/28/2020 at 00:59

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ty! keen to send it out on a mission :)

Taylor Martin > whatuptkhere 06/28/2020 at 19:03

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SolarB oi off in this ohhhhh

Watch it survey watch it roammm

Watch it be a SolarB oi and tavel cross the gloooobe

whatuptkhere > Taylor Martin 06/30/2020 at 10:32

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yo we be rollin’ in dough

all of this shit we blow

ridin’ on robots

ain’t goin’ fast we slow

(you just wait pal)

whatuptkhere > Taylor Martin 06/30/2020 at 11:55

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I may have... taken this and... uh... ran with it, so to speak.

Taylor Martin > whatuptkhere 07/01/2020 at 06:18

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So glad I could be the inspiration for something so remarkable ! Absolutely outstanding.