Thread: Wheel Envy?
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Unread 11-02-2010, 00:24
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Re: Wheel Envy?

Reminds me of what my team did back in 2006, before mecanums were all the rage, and were not available at *any* price

Here's a picture of ours:



Questions:
Is there any reason that you decided to use 7 rollers?
Did you mill this from a solid block of aluminum?

They still look awesome, I hope it matches the other colors of your robot.
Oh, and FYI - we still use the wheels we originally made as a practice bot for our most newbie members, even though they're 4 years old. I think that we used the same rubber, I remember baking the rollers. They're no longer anywhere close to as shiny and yellow, but they still work.

Props!
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