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Say Hi to the HOG Wheel Drive

Say Hi to the HOG Wheel Drive

That’s Hemispherical Omnidirectional Gimbaled wheel. As an idea it’s at least as old as 1938, but it’s lately been re-discovered by Curtis Boirum, an MS Mechanical Engineering student at Bradley University in Peoria, IL.

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3D-printable mecanum wheel

From the MAKE Flickr pool: Check out this excellent mecanum wheel by Flickr user ROB K636. If you didn’t know, mecanum wheels permit travel perpendicular to the rolling direction. He totally needs to submit this project to our MAKE/Makerbot Contest and upload the 3Ds to Thingiverse.

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Drive your car like a moon rover

Drive your car like a moon rover

[Photo via ESPN] If you want to drive like a rocketeer, or maybe you just don’t want to be bothered with checking your air pressure, then take a look at the Tweel. Airless tires could solve a number of problems associated with pneumatic tire technology. The Tweel, an experimental tire and wheel combination developed by […]

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HOW TO – Recycled parts decision maker

Old hard drives CD-ROM drives can be repurposed towards a variety of interesting projects but don’t overlook one of the most vital applications – an automated method for making those really tough decisions. This is a gadget made from recycled computer parts to give an absolute, unequivocal and irrefutable answer to that eternal office question […]

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