Building an Omni-Wheel Drift Cart @jamesbruton
Building an Omni-Wheel Drift Cart  @jamesbruton
Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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A drift cart is a powered vehicle which generally has drift wheels on the back which have less grip than normal tyres. This allows the back wheels to drift sideways. There are lots of examples of these sorts of vehicles on YouTube, but driving while drifting under control takes skill.
But what about if we were to make a drift cart where the amount of drift can be precisely controlled.
I previously built a bicycle with an omni-wheel on the front, facing sideways.
This allowed the bike to balance sideways like a Segway or Hoverboard, but still ride like a normal bike.
An omni-wheel has lots of small wheels around the circumference of a big wheel, so it can be driven in one direction and slide passively in the other.


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