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Aren_Hill
10-08-2011, 22:25
[cdm-description=photo]37005[/cdm-description]
AdamHeard
10-08-2011, 22:29
Post the one with the violated window motor....
Cyberphil
10-08-2011, 22:31
Very interesting. Is the sprocket held in by those three screws I see acting like a clamping mechanism on the two opposite ends of the sprocket? If so, are you planning on anything if the sprocket does slip? At this point, that seems like the weak point in this design. But that could be solved by some ridges that fit into each other nicely.

Also, if you were to create this, would you use a keyed shaft, or hex? I only ask because in this render it looks like a keyed shaft.
Aren_Hill
10-08-2011, 22:39
Actually did the math on that clamping screw to disprove my architect father, and its got a safety factor of 2x on the max torque that ring will ever see before it theoretically would slip, of course a prototype would still be made.

It would be hex shaft, i just didn't finish it out completely
AdamHeard
10-08-2011, 22:42
Actually did the math on that clamping screw to disprove my architect father, and its got a safety factor of 2x on the max torque that ring will ever see before it theoretically would slip, of course a prototype would still be made.

It would be hex shaft, i just didn't finish it out completely

118 clamps in similar fashion, just with more surface area.
BrendanB
10-08-2011, 22:46
Wait, 6wd swerve wasn't good enough for you? Now you have to do a 6wd WCD swerve? :)
Cyberphil
10-08-2011, 22:59
Actually did the math on that clamping screw to disprove my architect father, and its got a safety factor of 2x on the max torque that ring will ever see before it theoretically would slip, of course a prototype would still be made.

It would be hex shaft, i just didn't finish it out completely

Excellent.

Beautiful stuff! Its inspiring me to test my CAD skills and design something along these lines.
davepowers
10-08-2011, 23:03
Wait, 6wd swerve wasn't good enough for you? Now you have to do a 6wd WCD swerve? :)

:O, MIND BLOWNN.
Andrew Schreiber
10-08-2011, 23:06
Post the one with the violated window motor....

I second this notion.
MattC9
11-08-2011, 13:33
Post the one with the violated window motor....

Violated Window motor? I want to see this
AdamHeard
11-08-2011, 13:39
Violated Window motor? I want to see this

It was a joke really, Aren and I had been debating gearing for swerves and how the module rotation can be a handicap. There was one with like a 10:1 gear UP to make it super fast. Obviously this wouldn't work.
Cyberphil
11-08-2011, 17:55
Kind of like the teaser that one team posted with a all-traction-wheel omni drive where the base was milled out of one solid block of aluminium with the wheels directly driven by the CIMs. :p
Cyberphil
11-08-2011, 17:57
Kind of like the teaser that one team posted with a all-traction-wheel omni drive where the base was milled out of one solid block of aluminium with the wheels directly driven by the CIMs. :p
Hawiian Cadder
11-08-2011, 22:42
Kind of like the teaser that one team posted with a all-traction-wheel omni drive where the base was milled out of one solid block of aluminium with the wheels directly driven by the CIMs. :p

if only they had been able to design a mini-bot that fast...