Gotham Laboratories will be at World Maker Faire next month to show off MapperBot, a drone that demonstrates mapping an asteroid with a plenoptic camera, which they have mounted on a quadcopter which will circumnavigate a 2-3 meter asteroid mockup and map the surface details in real time.
Go Lab won the Best Hardware Prize at 2013′s NASA Space Apps Challenge with a nano satellite concept, and they’ll be showing it off along with the mapping drone. Looks really cool!
BY John Baichtal
My interests include writing, electronics, RPGs, comics, scifi, hackers & hackerspaces, 3D printing, building sets, & toys.
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How are you going to map an asteroid with a quad copter? The last time I checked there is no atmosphere around asteroids.
I think the idea is to verify the mapping technique with the Lytro Cam, rather than suggest a quadcopter as the vehicle.
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