So while y’all have been off talking about random spring concepts and ohhing and ahhing over Aperture and Gus, I decided to actually use my time wisely…
Please join me in welcoming the first teaser of the completely awesome and totally cool BOTZ design!
A puppy for the first person who can tell me exactly what this is, what it will do, and the full design! ::insert evil laugh here::
They are cool, but if you view a robot from the top and visualize it as a circle, the wheels are spaced every 120 degrees. It’s a holonomic drive with three wheels evenly spaced instead of four.
The angle of the wheel module isn’t correct for an X, + or wiki drive. You might be doing something similar to Piratech, they altered the angle of the X holonomic to attain faster movement in two primary directions (L/R) while sacrificing speed in front/back. But I seriously doubt this.
I think your thinking hexagonal. Possibly similar to the scorpion drive. That’s my guess at least.
I think it couldn’t be a kiwi drive because of the degree of the angle, but since it is kinda close, I guess I should guess eithier a 4 wheeled (x config) holo, but I don’t think that’s it, so maybe a 2 forward or backward wheels in the x style, then have a 3rd powered wheel that is either sideways (in the H config) or a wheel that is facing forward to help it go forward easier. (I’m probably wrong, but hey, it’s worth a try! ;))
See I don’t think Joe gets that these teasers of extremely zoomed in parts are no fun. I like to zoom a little further out to see if they can figure it out (like the Nonatread) He even admits that There are like 5 parts visible 2 structure, an omniwheel, a bold and a nut. Thats pretty much it… Joe you could tell me after all you are an honorary member of Aperture Whatever it is it probably wont disappoint though
Working on the next one right now! I ran into a constraining problem, but I’m trying to have it solved within the hour…
And yes… I am an honorary member… I :might: upload some pics to Facebook… (ahem everyone else: here’s a great reason to become friends with robotics people!)