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Assuming these are only 2 wheels... if you could tilt the wheels on one set of rollers or the other it would make an interesting drive.
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Our programer suggested that. Although a pneumatic system would be much quicker at changing directions, you still just have a omni directional drive. Now if you replaced on of the wheels with a plaction or other wheel, and actuated that up and down. Essentially it would be a different way of doing a Octocanum drive.
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Those look like really high quality rollers! Were those purchased from some obscure secret warehouse or do you have a sponsor capable of advanced machining? (Presumably CNC mill, CNC lathe, and some custom hardware...)
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Yep, between our two gracious sponsors HK Plastics and Aztec Tooling, we have 7 CNC mills, 1 CNC Lathe, 5 Manual Lathes, and 3 Drill Presses.
we are spoiled. The Hub of the rollers used some fancy set ups on the Drill press/ Mill (didnt use a single CNC on them, and the students produced them). The Rollers were made on the CNC lathe.
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On the "runs circles around West Coast Drive", you got any video? If you don't, I'm rather skeptical.
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The circles part was a joke. We don't see how these wheels would work as shown in the picture, so were guessing that it will just go around in circles. Hopefully we'll have some footage up tonight.
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What's the coolness factor for those wheels? OVER 9000!!
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Im glad someone got that
