Make a Mecanum wheel by yourself！！！

A Mecanum wheel created for everyone！

Tony-Lin

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Description

This Mecanum wheel is being created for everyone who want to make a Omnidirectional mobile platform by themselves.
You don't have to buy any expensive parts, you just need to buy a tittle cheap parts and the other parts can be print by your 3d printer.

Details

Matters needing attention:

As we all know, Mecanum Wheel has the opposite one and the positive one. A Omnidirectional mobile platform can consists of four Mecanum Wheel(two opposite wheel and two positive wheel )

So you can find two STL files one of them called "p0" and the other one called "p0-m".

To build a opposite wheel, you should print two "p0", one "p1" and nine "p2".

To build a positive wheel, you should print two "p0-m", one "p1" and nine "p2".

Files

p0.STL Standard Tesselated Geometry - 5.95 MB - 05/08/2019 at 16:43		Download
p0-m.STL Standard Tesselated Geometry - 5.95 MB - 05/08/2019 at 16:43		Download
p2.STL Standard Tesselated Geometry - 4.67 MB - 05/08/2019 at 16:43		Download
p1.STL Standard Tesselated Geometry - 2.78 MB - 05/08/2019 at 16:42		Download

Components

1 × 3d printer To print some necessary parts
9 × M3 non-self-locking nut
9 × M3 Half-tooth hexagonal screw
1 × Silica gel thermal shrinkage tube with length of 1 meter and diameter of 16mm

Project Logs

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Print the parts
Tony-Lin • 05/08/2019 at 17:33 • 0 comments

All parts of a wheel are shown in the figure below.

If you are going build a mobile platform, you should print four Mecanum Wheels. It cost me about five days to print 36 "p2", 4 "p0", 4 "p0-m", 4 "p1".

Right, that's a long time!

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Build Instructions

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1

Printing all the parts

Download all the STL files, then import them to your slicing software.By the way, the slicing software I used is Cura 15.04.

Transform the STL files into Gcode files, then you can use them to print all the parts.

As what I had said in the log, that will cost you a lot of time. So, enjoy it!
2

Prepare other necessary parts

You still need some necessary parts except the 3d printing parts. Please refer to Components.

The other necessary parts you need to assemble a Mecanum Wheel are shown in the figure below.
3

Fix one of the end of the iron shaft with 502 glue first

This step is a great test of skill.

As shown below, you should fix the iron axis one by one. Take it easy！