by news | Aug 24, 2014 | Pictures
Somehow the rollers don’t quite line up as they should… I’m not too annoyed, patterning parts in Inventor is a pain…. I guess I’ll have to add a couple of motors and probably some raised castors, but I think it looks pretty...
by news | Aug 24, 2014 | Design, Pictures, Videos
I did mention using one double long chain for one rotation axis but I think a lot can be said for just using the same length for both. This reduces part numbers since we can just use the same bits. Standard configuration would come as a 4 part X as shown below but...
by news | Aug 24, 2014 | Videos
by news | Aug 24, 2014 | Engineering
I figured out how to make a pattern of the omnichain, which looks pretty good. I’m not sure I can get it to animate though, just doing this was a struggle. I need to complete a base to lift it up though otherwise everyone will think that the sphere will be...
by news | Aug 23, 2014 | Design
If the omnichains work then we should be able to get some great responsive movement for pitch and roll quite easily, but what about yaw? Yaw is possibly a movement that we can drop and the user wouldn’t notice, since the sphere is tethered we’re not able...
