21549A - VEX IQ Squared Away Robot Reveal/Explanation

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On behalf of team 21549A, one of our organisation’s VEX IQ teams, below is their Squared Away / Worlds Robot Reveal and Explanation. Now retired from VIQC, they would like to encourage and inspire fellow teams through sharing their ideas, strategies and robot from this current season.

Robot Specs:

  • 2m 3:5 Drive
  • 1m 6:1 Lift (Four Bar)
  • 1m 1:1 Claw
  • 1m 1:1.5 Intake
  • 1m shared Skipping Chain - Intake Mechanism (2:1) and Dropper (1:1).

Highest Driver Skills: 110 (Unofficial)
Highest Programming Skills: 80 (Official)
Highest Teamwork Score: 138 (Official)

Instagram: @gearsquad21549a
Twitter: @GearSquad21549A

Best of luck for the upcoming season!

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#2

I love the reveal, nice job!

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#3

Nice job @Dillan20785A! While I am not in VIQ, and know very little about Squared Away, it looks like it worked very effectively and efficiently.

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#4

Wow, amazing reveal and explanation video! Good luck in VRC!

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#5

Nice job you guys! Good luck next year in VRC!

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#6

Yeah you guys will do great

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#8

On the contrary, it gave it a cool look and made the robot look like it was the Flash (probably how it was during competition am I right?)

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#9

Somebody didn’t want ppl hole counting their robot

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#10

I love the phrase “our wheels nearly hit everything around them”
overall great robot, definitely beats anything I built in VEX IQ

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#11

Terrobytes and something simple could also score balls on the height one because you all had the same claw idea

#12

By the way, that skipping chain is GENIUS! Props to the team for coming up with that.

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#13

I was really surprised and impressed that they managed to pull it off too, especially in IQ. They spent a lot of time trying to tune and make it as accurate as possible. I remember them having issues with enough torque to run the system, but with the correct tensioning as said in the video and many iterations they did it. Having not seen a “skipping chain” motor sharing mechanism like this before, it really was quite amazing. Looking into EDR, I think this system could be developed and made/tuned better as a motor sharing mechanism, especially with more leniency in modifying and using a wider variety of parts.

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