• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      7 months ago

      I'm pretty disgusted at the Youtuber. I feel a bit manipulated. In this goal of getting at least 100,000s views he built a whiz-bang bike based on tech that's been around for decades but that's basically unknown to the general public.

      • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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        7 months ago

        yeah idk its more common in robotics circles I guess. I havent watched the vid yet, does he pretend its new tech or something?

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          7 months ago

          I'm sure he didn't and he mentions stuff in some detail. But I'm not an engineer and when I watched it I didn't know what mecanum meant so it seemed like word salad. I skipped to the end where he's riding around on it. Here's a Youtube comment:

          “Screw bike mecanum wheel omnidirectional colinear drive bike project” really rolls off the tongue!