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...
by news | Aug 23, 2014 | Design
Autodesk Inventor has a roller chain design accelerator that can produce quite complicated chains. So half an hour of playing around and I’ve managed to make my chains ‘properly’. Only problem is that it doesn’t actually show the...
by news | Aug 23, 2014 | Design
Someone made a pretty good track on...
by news | Aug 22, 2014 | Design
If we use omnichains they obviously can’t cross over each other, so we would need to use a configuration somewhat like this : So one long chain can handle pitch and the other two handle roll. The sphere is more likely to be balanced for roll so the pitching...
by news | Aug 22, 2014 | Design
The previous OmniChain looks far too weak so I did a hopefully stronger part. 1 bent 8mm wide clip, 2 screws, 2 washers and a rubber wheel about 20mm wide that can fit on a standard bike chain. Simple...
by news | Aug 22, 2014 | Design
And I thought my computer ran like a dog at the best of times, just try adding scores of chain links… I might struggle to make a video render with...
