by news | Aug 1, 2014 | Design
Someone over on reddit thinks the sphere will fall apart without nuts on the outside holding the bolts in place. Obviously they’re not an engineer, or perhaps they missed the fact that all the holes would be threaded. We would of course have some kind of locking...
by news | Aug 1, 2014 | Design
I finally fixed a niggly error in wordpress that was complaining about the super cache not working properly, so it looks like everything is running nicely. Cloudflare is helping me along too so I’m ready to get slash dotted!! (does anyone even say that now?? :p)...
by news | Jul 31, 2014 | Design
Before you all jump to conclusions about the information on the site I should note that good old Youtube made a unlisted video public as soon as it was uploaded, someone posted it to reddit and now suddenly, and unexpectedly, the blog where I’m organising my...
by news | Jul 31, 2014 | Design
So my Alibaba enquiry told me that the panels shouldn’t cost the earth, lets see how the prices in the UK compare. I just emailed a dozen British engineering places for quotes, or at least to get the ball rolling. It certainly seems worthwhile redesigning the...
by news | Jul 31, 2014 | Design
Before redesigning the panels I did a quick test to check what adding tabs to them would mean. After adding three tabs to the hexagons it looks like we would only need 20 connectors to join them up! This also slashes the number of bolts and washers too which is good....
by news | Jul 31, 2014 | Design
Want more power? Just add some more motors, power supplies and wheels. Easy huh? Want to double it again? Just add another set of motors to the other side of the mecanum wheels. Instead of replacing parts to increase the power we just add a few components to the...
