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thats cool
is there any video?

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I tried to post some video to youtube but it wasn't cooperating so video should be up in the next day or two. If anyone at Monty Madness wants to demo this come find me, I should be in the Vex pits.

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dude... you are my hero!!

:P

-vivek

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huge props on making these =)

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These are really cool i got to see them at Monty and our mentor (head vex ref at Monty i believe) Ben Mitchell explained to me how they were made. This is really sweet.

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Where the wheels made on a 3-D printer? If so, that is even cooler!

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word? I feel special:D

Thanks Ben is good people he's as down as they come when talking about refs.

Yeah they were made on a 3D printer. The design isn't mine though I found it on the vex forum.

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oh my gosh!!! those are amazing!!!!! GREAT work!!
now i want some...

~Alex~

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very nice!

how well does it work?

what material did you use for the wheels?

do you have any kind of suspension?

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Hmmm Ill try to answer your questions.... even though dustin will correct me.... from what ive seen they work fairly well.... might be better in other peoples opinions... i dont know the material.... and from what i saw there is no suspension

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That's awesome, how long did it take to print each roller?

I would also love to see some video of this in action, this could become a very cheap way to prototype a mecanum drive if someone started selling these.

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thats awsome for you to accomplish that. I hope that they work as cool as they look. I cant wait for a video of it in action.

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Yah... I would definitely like to see a video.

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Three dimensional printers for rapid prototyping typically use ABS plastic, which is likely the same for the wheels.

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Three dimensional printers for rapid prototyping frequently use ABS plastic, which is likely the same for these wheels.

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Would you mind posting the link to the original design? I might look into printing it as well.

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Guessing from the size of the wheels I'm guessing between 15 to 25 hours to print all four wheels and rollers.

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Yeah the wheels are made of some kind of plastic. video is coming soon i am still recovering from monty madness. The wheels with all 72 rollers took >40 hours to print.

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^ooh you have 99 posts :P

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Sorry the videos took so long apparently the videos did loaded without my knowledge.

Heres the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmPbLRDwuGY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oxt8Myjv4c

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just curious: where did you do the 3d print? does ur school have one? or...ya...just about the printer./....

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I wish the printer belonged to me but sadly it doesn't. The Pre-Engineering program at my school has one and I asked it i could use it one day and since that is my shop and the robotics mentor is my teacher, he said ok.

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My college has one of the old plaster & binder zcorp 3d printers - it makes pretty models with great resolution, but they are not durable - they are basically things to look at, not play with. The machine used to make these uses plastic, so the end result is actually usable.

These wheels are absolutely awseome, and really show how Vex can be used with non-vex parts.

In addition, the side-stepping is darn cool. It blew my mind at Monty Madness.

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Haha looks exactly like our drive but small and cute!

How's the wear on the rollers?

(Amazing job by the way)

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there is minimal wear on the rollers but they only have about 1 hour of use maybe 2 at the most. The rollers are made out of super hard plastic though.

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Hey everyone, I'm trying to get the word out about FingerTech's new Mecanum Wheels. Now you can all have a set of your own!

Check out: http://www.fingertechrobotics.com/pr...ft-mecanum-set

Very nice work on printing your own though, looks great!