Holonomic Drive

[kresty]

Thanks Oliver for showing him off on the stage and the talk, it was cool!

Here you can see its holonomic drive..  I mucked with the brightness so you can see the Lego details and the holonomic drive.  Note that the balls in the corners are just balls, they don't move and are a couple mm off the ground.  Like toy balls or something.  About the size of the Lego planets, (not sure), but I don't see a seam.

The Holonomic Drive means it can move any direction.  Oliver put a blue LED on one side so he knows which way's front.  It looks fun in person, he can spin it in circles and drives off in different directions.  It looks pretty fun to drive; a different kind of motion from the droids we're used to.

Also note that the Lego details are just cut where the wheels go.  Once you start using Lego as a building material and are willing to cut it, you have a bunch more possibilities. 



I have more pix of it on the stage I can post later.