Space Engineers Heavy Excavator Showcase

Just a quick Tech demo of my Hardware and Sinbad at the KSH forums software. Together we make a crazy (literal) team. We have collectively designed a WASD + Arrow key controller that can be adapted to most machines with a little programming know how.

I'll just go ahead and say that its not the biggest, the fastest, the most compact, or the most pretty looking thing, but i have to say she's probably a contender for most energy efficient like (30KW) and one of the best control schemes/systems.

The unit weighs about 160 tonnes unloaded, and is capable (in survival) of holding about 60 tonnes of weight in the drills to be dumped into whatever system you have in place. I've proof loaded the unit with 150 tonnes of cargo at full extension and it didn't tip over so i think its safe to say its fairly stable.

The controls are Standard ISO excavator controls mapped to a keyboard WS control Boom Lower and Raise, AD control traverse, Up Down control Stick extend curl and lastly Left Right Curl and extend the bucket.

I'd like to say here that i don't intend to scale this unit up, as it does rely on having a Small block base, holding a large ship rotor with a small ship head to give it the needed torque to swing around the hundreds of tonnes of steel and ore

I take no credit for anything but the hardware design which Sinbad added a few touches of his own.

Видео Space Engineers Heavy Excavator Showcase канала GrindyGears