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Never reinvent the wheel. It was already (re)invented many times before.

A project log for The Robot with Balls Experiment

A new kind of gearbox. Holonomic transmission, direct-drive and continuously-variable. From reverse to full-forward, and in any direction.

rogeorgeRoGeorge 07/21/2017 at 21:333 Comments

Bummer:

"Somebody says:

July 21, 2017 at 5:17 am

It looks like you have reinvented the Hemispherical omnidirectional gimbaled wheel drive. Check out
https://hackaday.com/tag/hemispherical-omnidirectional-gimbaled-wheel/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherical_omnidirectional_gimbaled_wheel"

:o(

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Simon Merrett wrote 07/23/2017 at 14:16 point

But if these have a useful robotics application and they aren't already well known for hobby manufacturing, I say please keep going!

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RoGeorge wrote 07/24/2017 at 16:06 point

Your words made me to keep going with this project.
Thank you!

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Simon Merrett wrote 07/24/2017 at 17:31 point

Good, and thank you.

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