27-02-2004 23:22

Re: pic: omni wheels

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

Did you make those or buy them?

27-02-2004 23:25

Alex Cormier

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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).

27-02-2004 23:36

Rickertsen2

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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?

27-02-2004 23:37

Alex Cormier

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

28-02-2004 01:08

Gabriel

Re: pic: omni wheels

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?

28-02-2004 08:47

Alex Cormier

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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...

28-02-2004 09:42

Ben Lauer

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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?

28-02-2004 09:51

Blacknight

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

28-02-2004 10:08

Katie Reynolds

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Very slick.

Nice job!

28-02-2004 10:39

Rich Wong

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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?!

28-02-2004 13:20

Alex Cormier

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they weigh 2.65lbs each

28-02-2004 13:21

Alex Cormier

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

28-02-2004 23:26

Arefin Bari

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

29-02-2004 00:52

Shu Song

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Those wheels look so pimpin', (in the good way).

03-03-2004 20:10

Alex Cormier

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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