Mecanum wheels, also known as omni wheels, consist of a hub with rollers oriented at 45° to the axis of rotation. The Mecanum wheels are wheel hubs fitted with integrated rollers that move passively and independently.
Depending on which wheels rotate in which direction, the platform can move forward, backward, sideways, diagonally, or spin in place. This range of maneuverability enables the Omni Platform to efficiently navigate any space, particularly around tight corners, narrow lanes, and complex pathways.
This Omni Direction Robot Car learning kit for Arduino was developed by our team of engineers from Japan and Canada. It has all the features a traditional robot car for Arduino should have, including remote control via Bluetooth, IoT through Wi-Fi, line tracking, and obstacle avoidance auto-driving. With the help of powerful Mecanum wheels, the car can make much more complex movements such as sideways shifting and diagonal movement controlled by a cellphone app.
The kit comes with an OSOYOO Mega2560 board (fully compatible with Arduino Mega2560) and an OSOYOO ESP8266 Wi-Fi Shield. Additionally, we have designed five step-by-step lessons to help students learn Arduino robot programming from scratch. If you are an experienced DIY player or Arduino programmer, you can also gain a lot of knowledge from this kit’s open-source code and hardware to create interesting DIY projects of your own.
