Here's the latest from BOA-Labs: My first omni-wheeler. It draws very little from the suggestion here . Most roving robots must turn to face their direction of travel. The plan with this one is that it should be able to move around in 2D space without having to turn to face "forw…

programming As soon as I read the word triangular, there was a bit of a brain haze right behind my eyes. Then my visual cortex kicked in and now I have a migraine! Please let us know… Forget video. We want code! Or in your case: high level pseudo code.

perfect pivot rotations, perfect pivot rotations, and side strafe capability eh… not bad!

very clean mounting very clean mounting technic!! good start! want to see what you will do with ti :wink:

nice! i like those wheels nice! i like those wheels and base.

But! It has 3 wheels in a But! It has 3 wheels in a triangle, how can it drive forward?

Who cares about forward. You can be such a techy sometimes :wink: Apearantly, Wowwee built a similar base for one of their’s, proving it can be done.

Here’s some formulas that Here’s some formulas that can be used to calculate the direction and spin of a Killough platform robot like this. And one robot similar , made for the Trinity Fire Fighting contest.

Musings on Paint Sticks [TOW04_Fwd.jpg] Paint sticks are for artists. I’m a scientist and an engineer. That’s why nothing I start is ever really "finished." The idea is that one or more wheels, potentially rotating an various speeds and directions relative to one another will …

Voodoo You call it “voodoo.” I call it "science." It doesn’t have “forward”. I thought you’d enjoy that as an artist. The simplest way to make it go in a straight line is to drive two wheels in opposite directions while keeping the other one still. It’s a real brain bender at fi…

The ups and downs Heh! I knew one of you would come up with the difficult maths. I’m a bit pissed that it was so easy to find that someone has already done it. I had thought it was quite novel. Bugger. I’m all demotivated now.

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Who cares about forward.

You can be such a techy sometimes

Apearantly, Wowwee built a similar base for one of their’s, proving it can be done.