I already built the bike and the video comes up next Tuesday!

No bandsaw, no drill press, but a TIG welder. These are some priorities... Oh, and you can just put something like tin foil or heat-resistant fabric over stuff that you want to protect from the heat. It's mostly IR radiation from the arc, so very easy to shield.

I really hope this project doesn't turn into a case study on why front wheels of bikes typically have a diameter greater than 10cm

It blows my mind that you’ve made what you’ve made and you have such basic tools for most stuff, 3d cad design is really mind blowing now

Please, when welding, use something that sucks the smoke away. Especially when welding onto nuts and bolts that *might* have a zinc coating, or another metallic coating. Steel isn't that dangerous, but when you start to oxidize coatings on nuts and bolts, a lot of terrible things come out. The discoloration on the nuts (as seen @6:28 for example) is bad news for your health.

Cool seeing onshape as a sponsor, it's great CAD.

I will be investigating OnShape on the sheer weight of your recommendation. Sponsoring a Master Maker like James Bruton is pretty smart since he has ridiculous levels of credibility.

Actually glad to see OnShape getting some love again. I’m quite fond of it and use it for all my design work except when I need CAM.

We are all so spoiled by top tier welders on youtube. Glad to see someone doing welds that look like my own.

I'm glad to see OnShape sponsor this channel. I've also seen it on the Dark Aero channel where they use it to design an entire airplane!

Pretty cool to see Onshape as a sponsor... I've used it professionally as a design consultant for the last 3 years, and my clients love the availability for their engineers to collaborate with me in real-time.

7:00 The gentleman knows his audience well. Kudos!

Your projects are so well finished! I love the colors and work you put into painting! Your amazing!!!!!

I like to imagine your 3d printers are set up to constantly play the 3d printing music the whole time they're printing.

I've recently transitioned to a wheelchair that uses passive Omni Wheels in the front and is steered by applying differential power to the two rear wheels. This is an excellent design, but it has a few glaring weak points. The tiniest ledge, even thick carpet, is too tall for the Omni Wheels to mount when swinging sideways. There are two 500 watt motors, I believe it has ample power. Most wheelchairs have difficulty with rugs, this is easily dealt with. But I live on a rather steep Hill. When I break traction even to the slightest degree, the chair consistently slides downhill at a little greater than a 45° angle with respect to the direction of movement. This is rather terrifying as it usually ends with the chair sliding into an obstacle and flipping. I'm curious if you have any ideas for this? I'm a retired mechanical engineer myself. I've often kicked around the idea of a friction plate on the Omni Wheels, have them default to freewheeling, but lock the smaller Wheels with the press of a button. Keeping weight down is very important, I don't see any reason this could not be done with simple bicycle linkages. In my case, I have use of my feet, so I'm trying to think of a model that links these friction plates to a foot pad perhaps? So if I know I need to traverse a slope, I could press the pedal to apply the friction disc and effectively convert the front wheels to traditional Wheels. But how do I go about doing so such that it does not impede the movement of the overall Wheels rotation? I suppose I can imagine a spring loaded disc that could be manipulated on or off while rotating, but I cannot imagine how one would be able to activate this feature on the fly so to speak. If I have to stop and lock hubs and stop to unlock hubs, it is not terribly useful. I need it more to be able to react dynamically to the terrain. I suppose unlocking it could take longer, but the ability to lock it up on the fly is something of a necessity. I have a decent amount of room to work with, there is no axle in front and I am rather narrow. My chair does not fold so the build could be permanent. Do you have any ideas? Or resources you suggest? Although, now that I read this over, perhaps I have tunnel vision. Maybe an emergency break like the old soap box derby cars, a length of wood that could be pivoted to dig into the ground to brake. It would have to be functional on many different types of terrain. Any ideas spring to mind? I'm fairly resourceful and have machine tools available. I know it's asking a great deal, and I would be happy to remunerate you however you see fit, but I would love to have you put in 5 minutes of thought and just give me a few jumping off points. I understand completely if you cannot. Your videos have been very helpful and have expanded my knowledge, I am already in your debt. Be well.

Nice to see you getting into metal. Looking forward to future projects using the material.

What a cool project. Can't wait to see it done!

Really interesting. Looking forward for the next video.

Great work James!

Realy good job, cool. 😎 This build is alot more enviremental-frendly. ♻️ Grait job👍🏼

As a 14-year participant of the FIRST Robotics Competition, I personally recommend AndyMark's selection of Mecanum wheels; if, on the other hand, you want to make a set from scratch, then I would recommend consulting the Chief Delphi forums for institutional knowledge from hundreds of FRC participants who have done similar things in the past. 🤖

Love OnShape!

Awesome. Nice to see it finished.

I love seeing your vids, especially a few min after they r posted!

haha, It's funny you mention that about the 3-D printing music cause I noticed I had it stuck in my head the other day and was thinking, "I need to figure out what music this is so I can just pull it up on Spotify." After a minute I remembered it was your printing music and chuckled a bit. It's a good track!

Be careful when you weld anything with a Zinc coating like studs nuts and the like. The fumes are poisonous! Look up proper safety precautions!

Your dedication to your projects is incredible. I don't know if you have any videos on this channel going over your background or what you did before KZfaq and how you learned to make all this stuff. If you don't that would be cool. We all know you are a tech robot wizard but we need the backstory !

great video. you the man. such creations.

7:05 It truly isn't a real video without that music :D

ayyy hahah - can wait full project done

just a thing about the geometry of the rollers - making them cylinders mean the wheel as a whole has 'bumps' at the corner of each cylinder - non constant radius. you can fix this by applying the wheel radius to the rollers to make them barrel shaped. this will make the wheel smoother and easier to deal with.

Slick. Jeesh you're so very clever.

I'm looking forward to seeing how this pans out, if there's anyone that can make it work it's you

The printing Musik is awesome👍🏽

Onshape is a great sponsor and a good product and fitting especially compared to raid shadow legends

It was great seeing you at maker’s central

7:55 that is indeed a funny bike with a funny wheel

I really like the combination of steel pieces held in place inside a CNC routed shell along with 3D printed parts.

That is super cool ! It will be very strange to ride but should work ok on the smooth pavement

Where do you get the CAD for timing pulleys?

Great sponsor for the channel, it really fits with the content. Also, probably a bit late for this particular build but an ebike hub motor probably would have been a good simple drive system for this rather than an RC motor and belt reduction.

Cool!

Hi you are a genius !!! Good Luck you crazy omni-wheeEELER.

Absolutely mad idea, what's next, rocket thrusters? Looking forward to next episode.

Going to be awesome. Perhaps instead of flicking a switch though, you could detect when the speed is less than a low threshold, and engage auto-balancing then?

You could put aluminum foil over the wheels to protect while welding, maybe even a couple layers, can protect from quiet alot of welding!

Anglegrinder? Steel? Did I accidentially got on the wrong channel? But well done anyways, Omni wheels are just cool. Overly complicated, but cool. And can I just say, that end-music is much better. I do listen/watch all of it every time.

I'm gonna be honest with ya here James..... .... .... .... ... ... .... ... ... I REALLY do love that 3D music you play :P lol - seriously tho, I watch A LOT of KZfaq.. it's my MAIN source of Edutainment and I just DON'T watch any television anymore.. Well even though KZfaq has a large library of music you can use, I think yours is the ONLY channel I have heard this song on... I'm not even sure it's from youtube's library or not... but I REALLY do enjoy it.... it's a nice song that reminds me of making progress but relaxing while doing so... (I think that's because you always play it while waiting on the 3D printer to finish lol) And I really do hope that no one else uses it - to me it's YOUR song :) lol Thanks for sharing your AMAZING work!!!

thank you for another fascinating movie. Had you thought of making omniwheels out of two seperate rings of wheels & placing them side by side offset by half a wheel. That way you could have much bigger spaces in between the wheels. I started wondering about an e-scooter with front wheel drive & an omniwheel at the back. I wish i had the resources to try these ideas out but alas i have to live in my head

I'd love to see this bike where the front wheel is kept facing forward and the handle bars aren't connected to the front wheel. Instead of the bars turning the wheel, it sends a signal to a motor to drive the Omni wheel. I think that the confusion of people riding it for the first time would be hilarious and it would look like it was floating

Hey James, saw a cool project a while back for a 3d printed jig for a regular drill so you can drill a perfect 90 with a normal drill even against walls, might be worth a video!

Skip the drill press and go straight to a mill/drill. I wish I would have done that when I was first building out my little machine shop. My regular drill press rarely gets used anymore.

4:04 but those wheels will be better if they had a "barrel shape" rather than flat surface right?

What is the 3D printing music?

This omni wheel bike I have to see!

You can't use the 3d printing song for milling. I feel weird when I sing along now. 3d printing, 3d printing, 3d printing, I'm printing, 3D printing, I'm printing, 3D printing, I'm printing, 3D printing, I'm printing, 3D printing,

A lot to love here. I think you might wish you'd have faced those longboard wheels to a universale outer radius...

@James if you have a drill press and your not sure why its working start by taking the top off and checking the belt if its not the belt and the motor isn't turning check that it can be turned if it can check the fuse most of them have a fuse, if that's fine or it doesn't have one with it "unplugged" check the switch with a multimeter if that's fine follow the wiring back to the motor. If the motor is turning fine it might be a starter cap those can be replaced but be very careful even a bad one can carry quite a lot of energy. if the motor is not turning or making a crunchy sound it could be a bearing or carbon brushes. In the end use your head and be careful while working on high voltage devices but you are creative and mechanically inclined enough that this should be something you can do and hey it could be a video project?

active mechanum wheels?

What’s that strange shinny material that sparks you were using those scary tools to poke at? Must be some kind of new PLA composite. LOL You are always on the cutting edge!

you should build a press attachment for your drill

Onshape!

That diy "starlite" material maybe could've helped protect the wheels during welding.

If you use a compression bit instead of an upcut, you'll get a better edge finish.

Nice 🙂

wait... stainless steel? Doesn't welding that create chromium vapor? Hope you have really good ventilation, and a good respirator. Be sure to be safe.

Very cool 👍. It's worth reading Marinus comment below, not something I thought of, not that I weld just yet 😉

James Bruton suddenly becomes Colin Furze

6:58 - Too Right 😁

Kind of refreshing to see something built that didn't come off a 3D printer using 10 pounds of plastic.

What about omnidirectional electric skateboard?

Share this with your friends. This guy needs more subs so he can afford some better tools!

I highly recommend a chop saw or cut off saw, with carbide teeth as opposed to abrasive wheels. Evolution is a great choice of saw and saw blade.

Once again blown away by your construction and designs. I have noticed in a lot of your constructions you use multiple nuts to take up axel space. Is there a reason you don't use spacers in those situations? The could save weight in a lot of places, and are cheap and easy to make. Really just looking for your insight on your design choices on this one. Always trying to learn more from master craftsmen.

I wish someone like tormach would sponsor you will a band saw and a cnc mill. I think you would make use of the tools.

Personally, I like your outro music more than the 3d printing music.

How will you overcome the aerodynamics?

YES THE OLD MUSIC IS BACK

3D Printing music! Yes.

at 7:20 or so, the 3d-print scenes. what did you actually gain by printing the parts with 20-ish percent infill and not massive? I don't see a huge gain in lower weight or cost saving, but a massively reduced sturdyness.

cool

Love it! Use more cnc and metal working!

6:57 - You’re welcome.

Wow, sudden, seamless transition from 3D printing plastic to CNC cutting wood and metal shop.

Unless you are on a dead smooth cleared surface those tiny wheels are going to put a lot of pressure on your forks and axle every time you hit even a small bump, they wont climb over anything much, even a small stone will cause a skateboard to chuck it's rider off the front by stopping suddenly.....

I was kinda hoping that you would make an X-drive car or something like that

3 minutes in I couldn't figure out if I was watching James Bruton or Colin Furze!

Have fun learning to drive that thing 😂

Комментарий в поддержку канала и ролика, а также труда мастера.

how about making a single omni wheel drone thing that can self balance so it looks like a sentient wheel robot thing

So… what's your plan for breaks?

Have you ever seen a 1967 Gyro-X car?

dudes about to make an omniwheel motorbike irl just to show us how impractical it is

There is a saying :"don't reinvent the wheel" Meanwhile physicists: "Omni wheel"

In the book of Ezekiel in the Bible, there is a description of a "wheel within a wheel". Many years ago a NASA scientist came up with something like your omniwheel as a possible explanation

Does anybody else compulsively look away when the welding arc is shown?

shame you couldn't get colin to fabricate one would have been a great colab

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🔥💕👍

Seems more intuitive to me to use the large diameter to go forward and use the small diameter to balance.