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Originally posted by Nataku
why not just make your own wheels? i don't see any point to using those omni wheel things, and not to metion that they are illegal this year anyway, they have metal touching the carpet thats a big no no this year
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If you
read my post
carefully, you'll notice that I said it worked great on carpet but not on steel... and that this year's new ones have URETHANE treads which are basically sticky hard rubber. They are perfectly legal... the great advantage to omni wheels is that they allow you to turn around one point without having your wheels skip... which sucks because that could result in your stack falling down if it not braced. The idea to use them came to our team from Cornell's robocup team.
Also, we did 'make' them. The pic above was something we designed in Inventor and had the Borg Warner guys look at. They then machined them for us with our specifications. We did the same this year for the new 9" wheels... you can't buy these at the quality we have them commercially.