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...
by news | Jun 15, 2014 | Design
Yay, the 1DOF simulator :p Normally this would just ‘rock’ but we want a sim so we add some fake movement. Underneath we have some motors, so now we can sit in the chair and we’re rotated when we add power. The motors don’t need to be very...
by news | Jun 13, 2014 | Design
They would be nice, but perhaps we can simulate them cheaply instead. Close your eyes on the highway (not while driving please! :p) and you receive very little motion input, even if you’re travelling at 200mph! You will feel the roads surface via tactile...
