Wikipedia covers it pretty well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecanum_wheel
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It's easy to get those wheels for small robotics projects too. They're a lot of fun to play with. I've made a few little vehicles with them. The microcontroller programming is a little tricky. I'm still tweaking the steering and transposition code on the newest one.
small robotics projects
They're also used for some large robotics projects, and I'm pretty sure I saw a video where they were being used on a forklift.
wow never expected to see mecanum-posting on hexbear. they're cool but that is a rough arrangement lmao
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.
yeah idk its more common in robotics circles I guess. I havent watched the vid yet, does he pretend its new tech or something?
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!
Finally, an e-bike for forklift operators!
You could probably actually do an Akira slide with this bike!
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: