Spherical Drive System
 

I was browsing around the internet today and found this:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spheri...09569385760936

Thought I would share with you guys.

- Andrew

Re: Spherical Drive System
 

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.

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What a GREAT Idea Andrew, thanks for posting ;)

Some Quick links to the cool pictures
Wheel that drives ball in peice's

Wheel that drives Ball Assembled


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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

-John

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:yikes: