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Post by Leon Grad on Apr 17, 2023 14:28:00 GMT
We've completed the design, development and testing of a new wheel design. This design is nothing short than revolutionary. The traditional way of building a wheel usually involves a considerable amount of skills. If it's made out of wood, youve got to bend a piece of wood into a perfectly circular shape. You've also got to find the center, build the pivot with a center hole, and ensure this pivot is at the exact center of the wheel even as you build the spokes. Or, a wooden piece is carved into a perfectly circular shape, involving lots of time. Building a traditional wheel out of metal or any other material require similar labor-intensive or skillful work. The Infinihoof design we developed at PangaTech eliminates all that. Instead, you can build a wheel using nothing more than approximately straight pieces of equal length, out of any material. So it could be straight pieces of metal, wood, anything. The pieces dont require being bent or anything. By simply assembling the pieces to one another, with a slight offset between any two pieces, it's possible to build two symmetrical helicoidal half-circles. To create the pivot point you then simply need to find the center point of any of the pieces, which will also be the center points of all the pieces, and drill a hole across the wheel through this point. Done. You've got a wheel. This is so easy to build we've nicknamed the design the "Mad Max Wheel" in reference to the fact it could be built from scraps even in a post-apocalyptic scenario like the one presented in the famous movies. So that's the general idea, but does it work? So we moved on to the test phase, and we've built one. We chose popsicle sticks and we've voluntarily assembled those sticks with minimal regards to precision. The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate if even a poorly-assembled Infinihoof wheel, such as one that a person might build in a garage or in a survival situation, would still be functional. So we built it and then tested it. And we were stunned by the result. Even our crudely-assembled wheel would roll very well, with nearly no wobble, and exhibit considerable stability. The results were not only positive, they were groundbreaking. The Infinihoof wheel is so stable we've realized it could make bicycles easier for beginners to use and safer for seasoned drivers to enjoy. It also has very advantageous geometry that'd greatly benefit vehicles on slippery terrains. For instance, during a wheel spin, the Infinihoof tries different points on the ground, whereas a conventional wheel would keep spinning on the same slippery point. Also, a conventional wheel would dig up an "U" shaped depression in the slippery substance (may it be slush or mud), but the Infinihoof is designed to propel the slippery substance away until the ground underneath is found. Not only is the wheel design super smart, the design is rather sexy, classy yet futuristic. It also makes it possible to build using upcycled materials, and therefore save the environment by reducing pollution. The wheel is so easy to build it might be possible for Pangaean Countries to begin producing their own in the very near future. |
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Post by arcanumofrelica on Apr 17, 2023 16:29:27 GMT
I like this design however I am failing to see how an axle would be able to be easily fitted that can operate with the viualisation of it rolling that I see in my head. As a wheel it may work well but as a functioning unit of a greater machine such as a cart I cannot imagine it working.
I will build a test myself to try and see if an axle of some sort can be made that works with teh unique shape of the wheels.
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Post by Leon Grad on Apr 18, 2023 15:28:10 GMT
I like this design however I am failing to see how an axle would be able to be easily fitted that can operate with the viualisation of it rolling that I see in my head. As a wheel it may work well but as a functioning unit of a greater machine such as a cart I cannot imagine it working. I will build a test myself to try and see if an axle of some sort can be made that works with teh unique shape of the wheels. We've recorded some shots of the test runs, I'm in the process of converting those into animated gif pictures so I can demonstrate the concept. The axle is super simple. |
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Post by arcanumofrelica on Apr 18, 2023 15:39:48 GMT
I like this design however I am failing to see how an axle would be able to be easily fitted that can operate with the viualisation of it rolling that I see in my head. As a wheel it may work well but as a functioning unit of a greater machine such as a cart I cannot imagine it working. I will build a test myself to try and see if an axle of some sort can be made that works with teh unique shape of the wheels. We've recorded some shots of the test runs, I'm in the process of converting those into animated gif pictures so I can demonstrate the concept. The axle is super simple. Ok. I may have over-thought it. In my head the wheel would wobble and zig-zag whilst still moving forwards meaning that on a vehicle the carriage / body / fuselage would end up rocking. I base this of the image in the original post by the way. |
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Post by Leon Grad on Apr 19, 2023 15:08:24 GMT
We've recorded some shots of the test runs, I'm in the process of converting those into animated gif pictures so I can demonstrate the concept. The axle is super simple. Ok. I may have over-thought it. In my head the wheel would wobble and zig-zag whilst still moving forwards meaning that on a vehicle the carriage / body / fuselage would end up rocking. I base this of the image in the original post by the way. Okay I've converted a couple of the shots we took   |
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Post by ellesardragon on Apr 19, 2023 18:57:13 GMT
Ok. I may have over-thought it. In my head the wheel would wobble and zig-zag whilst still moving forwards meaning that on a vehicle the carriage / body / fuselage would end up rocking. I base this of the image in the original post by the way. Okay I've converted a couple of the shots we took that looks so funny and interesting. having those as wheels on cars and such might actually even have a positive effect on the brains of people since it might train the mind to get more accomplished with multidimensional geometric shapes and movement(compared to a normal wheel. they also can be used more multifunctional. that second picture shows one suggestion I wanted to make but you already did it. and that was that there should be 2 wheels next to eachother in the opposite direction otherwise you might start going sideways if something blocks your movement. that property of how a screw can move sideways cal also be used very well in some cases like driving sideways. in robotics they have special very complex wheels like that but essentially it is a normal wheel modified to behave like how these screw like wheels behave. if all 4 of them can be controlled individually as in what direction they rotate in that would allow a vehicle to also move sideways. as for the multifunctional they can also be used to dig in soft sand or to move a boat. this is a page about such wheels: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecanum_wheelas you can see these pangean wheels can do the same as those mecanum wheels, but where those mecanum wheels work better on hard flat groud and won't work in the dirt and mud, the pangean wheels you are showing would be better at such things in the mud and sand than on hard flat road. also if you take the one in the gif(both are the same) and you rotate it in the opposite direction of the top one then if you put it in a pipe you get something like a pump, not for very high heights, but it would be like one of those screw pumps but instead of for little water and high height it will be much water little height. |
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Post by Leon Grad on Apr 20, 2023 22:00:10 GMT
Ive thought about that! Using it as a pump I mean. In fact I might be wrong but if it were to rotate in the opposite direction it could propel a boat on water too
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Post by ellesardragon on Apr 22, 2023 23:20:05 GMT
yes indeed. but ofcource you could also just use half of it and use that like a normal screw, the main advantage is simplicity and amount of uses.
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Post by Leon Grad on Apr 24, 2023 14:58:06 GMT
Yep that's the general idea we were going for Super easy to build so Pangaean Countries can build their own, too |
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Post by ellesardragon on Apr 24, 2023 19:31:41 GMT
I was on my uncles farm(biologic, actually in the top 3 or top 10 most biological farms of the country, so far that the government wanted to exclude them from the statistics since they where to clean and so would affect the results a lot). but they had some kind of trailer, part of the bottom of a old device, it had a big cylinder with in that a metal screw just like the pangean wheel, perhaps part of some kind of manure extrusion system or such for using manure to fertilize the lands. just found it funny since it essentially is the exact same but from metal instead of wood. it might also be easily doable to make them foldable so for example you can make them wheels for on the ground but also like wheels when you go on water or such, or for in storage if you have some kind of camper/caravan so that you can fold in the wheels to actually make it stand on the ground. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() this is one example of how it could be made foldable, the discs at the end are just used to lock the beams to the axis, you actually would only need one of them despite me adding in 2 here, since the bottom beam could also be fixed to the axis directly. all pieces in between are fixed in place whenever they reach their maximum or minimum ofset meaning that if the wheel is either collapsed or extended they will be fixed in place with the wheel. in these speciffic images due to the beams being long and thin and the parts that limit their rotation being thick(imagine it being mader from wood or such and needing to be strong) this speciffic example only colapses to a certain size, just smaller than half it's full extension. but this also means that the pitch is adjusted if it is used for a screw or such, so for example if you use it in water you can also use this not only to colapse the wheels but also to adjust the pitch of the screw, right now it only has 2 mayor settings, collapsed and extended. since any in between will result in a whiplash effect which only is deisred if it actually is desired, in some cases that whiplash effect could however help, but in most other cases there are just 2 main settings. when used as a screw for a boat perhaps it might be possible and usefull to instead of attaching that end part to the axis directly to attach some kind of spring like mechanism that responds to resistance so the screw autoadjusts to the speed and resistance of the water. |
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Post by ellesardragon on Apr 24, 2023 19:38:19 GMT
images failed to upload so try it again   |
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Post by ellesardragon on Apr 24, 2023 19:46:55 GMT
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Post by Leon Grad on Apr 24, 2023 19:47:18 GMT
I was on my uncles farm(biologic, actually in the top 3 or top 10 most biological farms of the country, so far that the government wanted to exclude them from the statistics since they where to clean and so would affect the results a lot). but they had some kind of trailer, part of the bottom of a old device, it had a big cylinder with in that a metal screw just like the pangean wheel, perhaps part of some kind of manure extrusion system or such for using manure to fertilize the lands. just found it funny since it essentially is the exact same but from metal instead of wood. it might also be easily doable to make them foldable so for example you can make them wheels for on the ground but also like wheels when you go on water or such, or for in storage if you have some kind of camper/caravan so that you can fold in the wheels to actually make it stand on the ground. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() this is one example of how it could be made foldable, the discs at the end are just used to lock the beams to the axis, you actually would only need one of them despite me adding in 2 here, since the bottom beam could also be fixed to the axis directly. all pieces in between are fixed in place whenever they reach their maximum or minimum ofset meaning that if the wheel is either collapsed or extended they will be fixed in place with the wheel. in these speciffic images due to the beams being long and thin and the parts that limit their rotation being thick(imagine it being mader from wood or such and needing to be strong) this speciffic example only colapses to a certain size, just smaller than half it's full extension. but this also means that the pitch is adjusted if it is used for a screw or such, so for example if you use it in water you can also use this not only to colapse the wheels but also to adjust the pitch of the screw, right now it only has 2 mayor settings, collapsed and extended. since any in between will result in a whiplash effect which only is deisred if it actually is desired, in some cases that whiplash effect could however help, but in most other cases there are just 2 main settings. when used as a screw for a boat perhaps it might be possible and usefull to instead of attaching that end part to the axis directly to attach some kind of spring like mechanism that responds to resistance so the screw autoadjusts to the speed and resistance of the water. I like the idea of folding the wheel a lot If I understand correctly I think you mean that instead of the popsicle sticks being at a slight angle from one another (giving a circular overall shape & so a wheel) theyd basically just fold and be aligned on top of one another (which would basically give a plane)? A bit like a fan opening/folding up?  |
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Post by Leon Grad on Apr 24, 2023 19:48:10 GMT
Ah yep I think were on the same page here
yeah I like that idea a lot
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Post by ellesardragon on May 13, 2023 18:43:42 GMT
yes indeed, in the design there I however made it so that it still had sticks on both sides but essentially it is the same principle as a fan
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