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I will be posting more photos of the finished product, possibly some video, and changes in design.
specs: diameter: 3" width: 1.125" materials: IFI roughtop tread and ABS plastic. |
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Looks sweet and all but, too bad the little vex motors can't handle much.
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Why not just gear multiple vex motors together for the drivetrain?
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I wish we had a stereolithography machine
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you may want to put some of those locking bars things on the wheel it's not hard just two holes and some nuts and bolts
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If we make it thick enough, the plastic from the 3D printer is pretty strong. The problem with this though is that we're going to have to make a few spares in case something happens, and it will probably take about 6 or more hours per wheel... That is assuming the thing actually works... :rolleyes:
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and as he was saying, we probably wont need to add a locking bar because the plastic itself is quite strong. and ira is close on that number, it will take from 4 - 24 hours, just due to the size of it. |
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The prototype wheel is now printed. Pictures will be posted hopefully by tomorrow. The wheel currently still needs its roughtop traction material that i'm ordering from IFI.
and it only took 5 hours to print! |
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the pictures look sweet!!
How much they weigh and is the vex motors able to move them with the traction strips on them? |
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