http://superpositioned.com/articles/2005/12/31/square-lego-wheels en-us 40 Electronics news and projects in the frequency domain <p>The Troy, NY company that invented a mechanism for <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/12/prweb316686.htm">powering a vehicle with square wheels</a> has been all over the web lately. Their idea is obvious, but ingenious. The square wheels are turned by a rotating mass mounted atop the vehicle. Everything is angled precisely causing each wheel to successively roll flat as the mass rotates around the vehicle.</p> <p>Several LEGO maniacs decided to try this on their own. (Video included in the first link.) The results are simple and successful.</p> <p><img src="http://superpositioned.com/files/sw1.jpg" alt="Square wheeled LEGO vehicle #1"/></p> <p><a href="http://news.lugnet.com/technic/?n=14950">Philo&#8217;s Solution (with video)</a></p> <p><img src="http://superpositioned.com/files/square1.jpg" alt="Square wheeled LEGO vehicle #2"/></p> <p><a href="http://news.lugnet.com/technic/?n=14970">Alexander&#8217;s Solution</a></p> Sat, 31 Dec 2005 19:39:00 -0800 urn:uuid:6df80df0-5413-4116-996d-d6b7dabc6988 Matthew http://superpositioned.com/articles/2005/12/31/square-lego-wheels Cool Robots lego