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Star Wars BB-8
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 7:19 am
by Dom
I thought this was neat about Star Wars, This new BB-8 Droid that moves on a sphere ball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_K10fX9DSY
Re: Star Wars BB-8
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:09 pm
by Neil
It's very cool to see that it's a real-life model versus CG.
I'm thinking it works via a hybrid of magnets attracting the head to the body, mixed with motorized wheels or rollers moving the sphere.
What do you think?
Regards,
Neil
Re: Star Wars BB-8
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 2:00 pm
by Dom
Yes I think that's what they did was use rollers and a magnetic head and a gyro or dead weight to keep the rollers inside level. I seen the you tube video of them dismantling the toy sphero bb-8 remote control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FHtcR78GA0
This is the patent I did for a magnetic sphere wheel, it uses electro magnets and no rollers. Imagine Sphere wheeled roller blades, you could stop like you on ice skidding sideways.
http://www.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/p ... sic_search