very cool

the whole time watching it, i was thinking this thing was like 2-3 feet tall.... yeah i was way off!

^ Hahah that's just what I was thinking too.. then I read your comment while watching and thought "oh, it must be say.. 6-7 feet tall". I sure got a good surprise at the end.

Why is this marked w/ Video games?

Nevermind! Just realized I didn't read the whole tag. Anything with John Carmack should instantly being videogames tagged. ;;

Now THERE's an armadillo that knows how to cross the road!

Just add handlebars to make the Segway Sky.

If only John Carmack could innovate in Arts rather than technology.

>> ^flechette:
Why is this marked w/ Video games?
Nevermind! Just realized I didn't read the whole tag. Anything with John Carmack should instantly being videogames tagged.



Not to mention * geek

Northrop Grumman, not Grummen.

Not sure why you guys were so way off on the height with the emergency fire extinguisher guy standing in the field off to the left at the start...


With the moon's gravity being 1/6th the earth's, the payload that even this particular unit could carry is interesting.

So awesome. I used to follow Carmack's build journal on this project. Watching it fly was pretty cool after reading all the stories about the build.

Ok, ok, I'll buy Doom 4. Is that what this is about?

I just keep thinking about atari's lunar lander... damn i loved that game.

> Carmack's stabilizing software wiggle is awesome

thats what she said

big deal. so they made a flying blow torch.
but can it blend?

Amazing to see it just being so stable... amazing.

Northrop Grumman? Why do we need a military contractor landing on the moon? There can be only one answer; the first lunar war is coming. I can only assume that NASA has discovered life on the surface. I, for one, would gladly serve in the 1st hopping infantry in our glorious struggle against the moon beasts.

go armadillo! updates your news page more often, bastards

Fantastic, but isn't this a problem that they cracked in the 1960's?

Totally! From what I heard Grumman was pretty proud of their original design and had convinced NASA to bust the Apollo lander out of the Air & Space Museum and use it for the next trip to the moon, but then some wiseguy said "AYFKM?!" and so they hired one of the most talented game developers on the planet to design a new one. I don't get it, personally, but I hope Carmack is able to leapfrog this achievement directly into the Oval Office.

If any one else loves the original game as much as me(hence the old school gaming tag). This is a pretty good remake of the original vector based atari game...

http://lander.dunnbypaul.net/

You guys are wrong. It IS only about 6-7 feet tall. They were just tapping in to the wonderful employment pool of Oompa-Loompas to put out the flame at the end!

Looks like they switched over to some kind of thrust-vectoring engine instead of the previous incarnation that had stabilizing thrusters.

>> ^phelixian:
If any one else loves the original game as much as me(hence the old school gaming tag). This is a pretty good remake of the original vector based atari game...
http://lander.dunnbypaul.net/


Found one of these with a broken coin slot (someone had turned on the infinite quarters switch) and spent most of an afternoon having a competition with a friend seeing who could go the fastest straight down before crashing. IIRC you would "abort" button to get some altitude then spin upside down (expert mode) and wall the throttle, adjusting to get into a crevass, not into the side of a mountain.

Good times. Good times.

Forget the lander - where did they get those tiny guys with the fire extinguisher?