Pretty cool video explaining how some omniwheels work, and then he makes one to test.

  • Society_Liver [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Omniwheels are cool. Shatter from BattleBots uses them to flank opponents while keeping their hammer on target. https://youtu.be/ZPOd-DxTbcc

    They're more complicated and fragile than conventional wheels (so you need to spend some weight on wheel armor), and they get less traction, but they're really neat and I wish more bots used them.

    • Ufot [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Well I just spent the last couple hours at work watching battle bot clips and reading about the bots on their wiki.

      • Society_Liver [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        It's in season right now! Discovery channel every Thursday night, with a bonus fight uploaded Sundays. If you don't do tv people are also really good at uploading the fights on youtube, but then you miss all the fluff in between.