by news | Jun 26, 2014 | Design
I spent some time in Inventor working on designing a mecanum wheel, which is quite tricky.
by news | Jun 23, 2014 | Design
With the world cup just around the corner the solution was staring me in the face. If I couldn’t make the sphere from triangles then pentagons and hexagons would do. That’s not to say I didn’t try to break it down further but it seemed like more...
by news | Jun 21, 2014 | Design
So how does one make a huge half sphere cheaply? Plexiglass? Sounds like a tricky proposition. Is it even strong enough? Fibreglass? Carbon fibre? maybe for a prototype but them mass producing them? The more I thought about it, the more I realised it couldn’t be...
by news | Jun 19, 2014 | Design
So if a half sphere was my ideal solution where would I get such a sphere and how big would it be? Well, the human center of gravity is around their navel So if I could keep this around the center of the sphere I would be winning in terms of power needed to move it....
by news | Jun 17, 2014 | Design
The bubble chair was a start but not quite the solution I needed. There was also an issue of engineering to be considered, how do you rotate a sphere 3 ways without the one set of wheels stopping the other. Happily this is a problem also worked out long ago : Omni...
