Post Tagged with: "omniwheel"

  • Preview of a new Robot: Skittles

    Preview of a new Robot: Skittles

    Robots February 24, 2012 22:09 1 comment

    This is a quick video I shot with my mobile phone of a new robot called Skittles. Why did I call it Skittles, you ask?  Well, it’s got all colours in the rainbow in it because I simply don’t have enough bricks of one or two colours to build the [...]

     
  • Rotacaster 125mm omniwheels

    Rotacaster 125mm omniwheels

    Ramblings February 14, 2012 17:48 no comments

    “Omni all the wheels!” That was my first thought when I received these new Rotacaster 125mm omniwheels.  They’re fantastic looking and HUGE, about 3 times the diameter of the 43mm ones that are being sold now.  They have some pretty impressive stats; they can handle a load of more than [...]

     
  • Sometimes you win…sometimes you get omni-humped.

    Sometimes you win…sometimes you get omni-humped.

    NXT November 7, 2011 22:55 4 comments

    I was working on an omniwheeled robot last night, trying some code that would ensure the vehicle would go straight even if the motors were not perfectly in sync.  Unfortunately, there seemed to be a bit of a bug in the code which lead to some pretty erratic behaviour. So [...]