pic: 3 wheel omni drive concept

[dtengineering]

Originally Posted by Ari423

I wasn't saying that wood robots won't work. ... you could see legal wood on metal contact ... and that scares me.

Not wanting to detract from the main point of the thread, because I think the idea is pretty cool and I'd love to see a machine like this play the game on year, but designing with wood actually gives you the ability to create stronger, stiffer manipulators in many cases. The lower density results in a greater specific stiffness, particularly when dealing with solid cross sections.

I know you didn't mean to insult wood... I can see you've planned to use it extensively, but we do have a small but noisy "wood is good" cheering squad here on CD. I've built a few wooden robots and arms where the wood on metal contact wouldn't be scary for the wood structure!

Anyway, cool design. Look forward to seeing it go one day!

Jason