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[CD47-Bot]

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now those are some pretty sweet omni wheels....

Did you make those or buy them?

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by D.J. Fluck

now those are some pretty sweet omni wheels....

Did you make those or buy them?

why thank you very much! no i defiently made them, with some help of a few mentors. i designed it and the drives mentor john gramlich had put it into inventor and gave it to the model shop guy gary pringle. with the help of mr. schlegal i had constucted many various prototypes. the orange is some rubber that was found laying around the xerox model shop and we used nylon rods pressed into the rubber, while the lexan is two pieces 3/8"(i believe).

[Rickertsen2]

Originally Posted by ElDiablo872

why thank you very much! no i defiently made them, with some help of a few mentors. i designed it and the drives mentor john gramlich had put it into inventor and gave it to the model shop guy gary pringle. with the help of mr. schlegal i had constucted many various prototypes. the orange is some rubber that was found laying around the xerox model shop and we used nylon rods pressed into the rubber, while the lexan is two pieces 3/8"(i believe).

goood. At first it almost looked too good to be milled. I was thinking stereolihthography, Z-printing, injection molding, and other scary thoughts like that. U sure thats lexan and not nylon or something liek that?

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Rickertsen2

goood. At first it almost looked too good to be milled. I was thinking stereolihthography, Z-printing, injection molding, and other scary thoughts like that.

hahahaha....that would have made it way too easy

[Gabriel]

Very impressive!

Would you be willing to write up a white paper on how you made these? I know a lot of teams (including mine) would love to learn how.

Also, I'm curious how are you connecting the wheel to the shaft? Is it keyed?

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Gabriel

Very impressive!

Would you be willing to write up a white paper on how you made these? I know a lot of teams (including mine) would love to learn how.

Also, I'm curious how are you connecting the wheel to the shaft? Is it keyed?

i'll think about that some time. if you realy want me to do one pm me every so often and remind me. it has a aluminum hub that was cut out for a 5/8" key way that goes with our shaft so we can change out many diffrent kind of wheels...

[Ben Lauer]

I LOVE THEM.

the colors are soooooo sweet. It kinda makes me wish that we would have done red and black ones on our bot.

1 question: how much do they weigh?

[Blacknight]

question r those are for driving or something else?
and if they're for driving r u a 5 wheel omni?

[Katie Reynolds]

Very slick.

Nice job!

[Rich Wong]

Very nice wheels,
I would love to see had they are fabricated and assembled.

Can you get a Patent of these wheels!
Start and company and manufacture them for other team?!

[Alex Cormier]

they are for driving. instead of a 5th wheel this year we designed and built those omni wheels for turning in high gear.

[Arefin Bari]

can i get those wheels... lol... we got a problem turning on high... solved it but i would like to have those wheels...

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Ben Lauer

I LOVE THEM.

the colors are soooooo sweet. It kinda makes me wish that we would have done red and black ones on our bot.

1 question: how much do they weigh?

they weigh 2.65lbs each

[Alex Cormier]

Latest news:

i am in process of making a white paper for the "Crazy Wheels".
it will be almost a week or two before i finish it and get it on this site....
Check back in a week or two