Spherical Drive System

[Andrew Remmers]

I was browsing around the internet today and found this:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spherical-Drive-System/209569385760936

Thought I would share with you guys.

- Andrew

[F22Rapture]

I'd kinda like to know how they plan on managing wear leveling. If you roll it on a single axis significantly more than another it's going to be extremely unbalanced.

[akoscielski3]

What a GREAT Idea Andrew, thanks for posting ;)

Some Quick links to the cool pictures
Wheel that drives ball in peice's
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/476322_395365923847947_1883343868_o.jpg)
Wheel that drives Ball Assembled (http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/74782_391376090913597_1369038565_n.jpg)


I think that OMNI is the craziest thing I've ever seen

[Andrew Lawrence]

Kinda reminds me of the hemispherical omnidirectional gimbaled drive...

For those of you who don't know: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96138

[Cory]

This was a senior project last year at my school that they have continued to work on.

Probably the coolest senior project I've ever seen.

[JamesCH95]

Very curious to see how it handles lateral forces... and braking...

I guess I'm not really buying that it's inherently safer that a motorcycle as they imply, but it does look like fun.

[JVN]

Very curious to see how it handles lateral forces... and braking...

I guess I'm not really buying that it's inherently safer that a motorcycle as they imply, but it does look like fun.

It's inherently safer than my motorcycle, because it probably goes about 1/10 of the speed. ;)

-John

[JamesCH95]

It's inherently safer than my motorcycle, because it probably goes about 1/10 of the speed. ;)

-John

:yikes: