Designing a better omniwheel

by | Jun 15, 2015 | Design, Engineering

I spent the last few days building omniwheels… although hopefully this is a part we can just use off the shelf its still nice to make your own for a scale prototype. Much better than the ones they replaced, with a lot better grip too. O-rings seemed like a good...

Cable Management Part 2

by | Jun 7, 2015 | Design

Plainly our design creates a problem for cables, VR will not be wireless for a good while, unless you count mobile VR, which is cool but not what we want to use. If you have a PC or laptop in the sphere you need power (a gaming laptop battery doesn’t last very...

Exposing the ‘obvious’

by | Jun 1, 2015 | Design, Engineering

Occasionally its nice to have a minor revelation about the design, and today was time for a reasonably major one. I’ve been building the latest prototype and since it’s actually easier to just make pentagons and half hexagons, that’s what I’ve...

A matter of balance

by | May 28, 2015 | Design

The lack of recent blog posts doesn’t mean this project has at all slowed down, far from it, but we’re far to busy to add much in the way of updates. The last couple of weeks have been crazily busy. Some of you may have noticed the more realistic design of...