JPL Open Source Rover

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory · United States · Pasadena

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Build-it-yourself scaled-down six-wheel rocker-bogie rover modeled on JPL's Mars rovers, built mostly from goBILDA COTS parts with a Raspberry Pi.

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From the open-source-rover README.NASA JPL Open Source Rover project · Apache-2.0 · source
From the open-source-rover README.NASA JPL Open Source Rover project · Apache-2.0 · source
Via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).NASA/JPL-Caltech, via Wikimedia Commons · PublicDomain · source

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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Org: /jpl
Signs to: L5 Certified. Not signed yet (package is L1).
Site: github.com/nasa-jpl/open-source-rover
Package: v0.1.0 · 26 steps

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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Lab	Pasadena, United States	link

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ID	Type	Bounty	Unlocks
HB-AP719	Sourcing	Find China offers for 114 JPL Open Source Rover parts	L3 Sourced
HB-IYFP2	Sourcing	Find Europe offers for 114 JPL Open Source Rover parts	L3 Sourced
HB-9P8TZ	Sourcing	Find India offers for 114 JPL Open Source Rover parts	L3 Sourced
HB-1CKA4	Sourcing	Find United States offers for 2 JPL Open Source Rover parts	L3 Sourced
HB-3502Q	Pricing	Price 25 JPL Open Source Rover BOM lines	L3 Sourced
HB-LZV0C	Assembly	Add checks and torque values to JPL Open Source Rover assembly	L4 Built
HB-RQIDB	Specs	Fill 6 spec fields for JPL Open Source Rover	Atlas accuracy

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