Here’s team 536C’s robot reveal for the CREATE U.S. Open! Sorry for the late post, we were busy working on a new robot for World’s. Hopefully we will be able to release a video of the World’s robot soon, it’s a pretty unique idea that we’re pretty sure has never been done before in VEX.
Great robot!!
I have a question though, how do you hang while your anti-tips are sticking out so far?
When you bring your robot up, wouldn’t the anti-tips dig against the ground, and therefore stop you from hanging?
The anti-tips are actually very easily removed since they are mounted on linear sliders so we remove them for situations such as skills whenever we would like to hang.
Honestly just a lot of practice. We also have put a parabolic curve on our joystick so at lower power it is much easier to control the robot while still being able to reach top speeds.
Team 536C had a great time competing at the US Open competition this past weekend. We were apart of the number one seed alliance in the green division along with our captain team 6135W, CHHS Bruins W from Kentucky, and 202, Slim Margins from Wisconsin. This was an amazing alliance to work with and we are very happy to have won the 2017 US Open with them. Looking forwards to Worlds in two weeks!
vexRT[someChannel] is scaled down to 1 by dividing by 127 and then squared for the “parabolic effect” (effectively making everything near 0 closer to 0 thereby rendering the robot more controllable–e.g. 20% on the joystick would be scaled down to 4% power on the robot) then scaled back up to 127.