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May 01, 2024
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Inventor James Bruton has a YouTube channel where he produces videos of his creations. Recently, he built the world’s first “screw bike.” This is an electric bike with four mecanum wheels. Without going too engineering-speak, mecanum wheels are big wheels with smaller dual-tapered wheels inset into the wheels at a 45-degree angle.
Bruton has built a variety of impressive devices, such as self-balancing robots, but an e-bike with four mecanum wheels was a challenge even for him.
The video gets very technical, but between his 3D-printing skills, welding chops and mechanical engineering genius, he managed to build the screw bike. It balances, goes forward, turns, moves backward and even goes sideways. We’ve skipped straight to the fun bit below. The best moment comes when he says, “Let’s try going forward—woo—oh it works!”
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