Cool new ideas for FIRST Robots - who has them?

I personally have worked on this idea for a while- ever since I saw the 3 wheeled omni directional bot. I have been thinking, and I thought of a way to give the drivetrain pushing power- this has been the key problem in this design. All that I need is a game that would support the idea.

And also- The design is very secret... so I may not share it until it has been tested.

[Karthik1]

I have a cool idea its basically holonomic with treads. Think omni treads.

Something ...... like this

[mechanicalbrain]

Santosh and i have been on IM allot and have been throwing around a cool design (among other cool ideas) for a treaded crab drive. I'm keeping the details to myself Santosh can share if he wants but its nice!

[Wetzel]

My A&P and other bio and life science classes have given me several interesting ideas.

Wetzel

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by Wetzel

My A&P and other bio and life science classes have given me several interesting ideas.

Wetzel

Whats the term for copying living organisms - copying the way living things accomplish a task?

biomimicry?

[mechanicalbrain]

Yes. Why what creature were you planning on mimicing?

[Jizvonius]

Originally Posted by Karthik1

I have a cool idea its basically holonomic with treads. Think omni treads.

Nice, the circuitrunners were considering that, but not only omni-treads, but also...TREAD-OMNIS.

Hope that was forboding enough. We thought, we can put rollers on a tread, or replace the rollers on an omniwheel with treads thus creating something that resembles a barrel made of treads. you could drive a robot with one of these if you wanted, but two would give you tank treads and traction in on direction, and omni-wheel drive and traction in the other. The weight and complexity of the design that i came up with made it very impractical, but it was still very cool.