While I was searching for some Omni wheels, I stumbled onto Nik melton's Omni Car. For those of you who do not know what it is; It is an omni directional movable vehicle in the sense that, it can travel in any direction at ease without having to turn. The omni directional wheels are those which gives the vehicle such smooth motion.

This car was entirely built by Nik. The body was designed by him, then printed with a 3D printer. The control system is what intrigued me the most. He has used simple circuitry to get the job done. There are a few glitches while it is traveling straight but overall, the job is well done. I liked the design of the car as well. He has done a neat job using the CAD tool also.



You might want to take a few moments to look around his project page. Nik has done a lot of fun stuff like delta robots, strange hybrid wheel/leg robots, tesla coils, and arm mounted flamethrowers. Judging by the videos he made, i reckon he’s pretty young too :) Nice going, Nick.

Here are a few pics of his omni car:

Hope you guys get inspired and start building those circuits and bots..