a californian combat robot builder contacted me through chiefdelphi and asked me about mecanum wheels. now im designing wheels for a 3lb mecanum flamethrower bot. here's the teaser shot.
Yes, i cheated the Nylon 4-40 screws they get razorknif'ed off
Here is an entire print package for what we TechnoKats call a "trick wheel". We don't claim to have the very first one of these, but we did have a version of this wheel on our 1998 robot. Mark Koors, TechnoKat engineer extra-ordinare, is the idea-man and designer of these wheels (he is a...