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 [...]
“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 [...]
I’d like to wish all of my readers a very happy and prosperous 2012. 2011 was a big year for my blog and NXT-sensor land. I moved from a hosted WordPress blog on wordpress.com to my own one on HostGator.com. I’ve never been happier about a hosting company. We had [...]
As per request, here are the ideas of the winners. I have copied and pasted (most of) the information from the original mails and edited it slightly. Benoît Genest: An omniwheeled container handler. In almost every Intermodal port, you can find Container Handlers (or Reachstacker) . These are usually 4- [...]
Man, this was really, really difficult. There were some really good submissions but in the end there could only be three winners. So without further ado, the people who will be receiving a set of these wheels are: Simon Burfield Benoît Genest Brian Bachmeier Congratulations to the three of you and [...]
HiTechnic have started selling the Rotacaster wheels now as well. That’s great news for people who live State-side. Now you won’t have to worry about US customs intercepting your nice wheels and using them for something themselves. HiTechnic is selling them in packs of two and you can get right [...]
Don’t forget that if you want to win 3 of those awesome Rotacaster wheels, you have only 10 days left to submit your idea to xander_at_botbench_dot_com (fix the address). You MUST put the words “ROTACASTER GIVE AWAY” in the subject. More details can be found here: [LINK].
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 [...]
Feeling lucky? So you feeling lucky, punk? Well, do you? If you so, why not enter the Rotacaster wheel contest? There are three sets of three wheels to give away. One set of each of the wheels below. Hardness: S35A (soft) Hardness: S35A (soft) Hardness: S65A (harder) They’re all compatible with [...]
These are the new Rotacaster wheels that arrived Monday morning. The one with the orange hub has dark grey, soft, very grippy rollers; the wheel with the dark grey hub has slightly harder, orange rollers. These are the latest prototypes and they have undergone some great improvements; the rollers roll [...]
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