Better Base Cover

The boxy base was ok, it got the job done and kept fingers safe but it was 8 parts (2 different ones) and didn’t look sooooo amazing. So after a little thinking and figuring out a simple part I came up with this : Looks LOADS better (I think), is only 1 part...

Finding more backers

Our email list is getting pretty healthy and we’re getting more twitter followers everyday, but will that translate into sales and backers? It’s hard to say until you actually require people to put their hands in their pockets. So, more is more, but where...

Adding more flexibilty

So you already decide how many panels you use, add more motors, change your sim to a bike, helicopter, hang glider… but that’s still not enough flexibility… We’ve been designing around a sphere that’s approximately 1.4m but it seems quite...

A new omnichain link..

I had a couple of cracks at this since Inventor decided to delete my first attempt. These should all be quite easy to manufacture for a chain producer since the pinlink sides are identical, they just need rotating 180 degrees. The part is pretty simple too since...

A closer look at chains

Inventor has a pretty good roller chain creator, but really only creates a solid representation of the chain (or a sketch) leaving the user to fill in the actual links. I found quite a nice tool to help though the “Roller Chain Generator for Inventor”...