Hey! North Central Florida team formely known as 8471 rebranded as 5842. This year, we decided to step things up a little and cad our robot before building, we prototyped all of these mechs before hand so we know theyll work. no string shooters have been cadded yet as this software made it a little …

okay after building everything and modifications to a few things, you weren’t wrong. it sucked trying to get it to work. but, it works now.

Where would you put the rubber band in order for the catapult to launch the disks? a diagram would be helpful, thx!

depends on your design. I don’t recommend copying this robot as it isn’t the best, I do recommend seeing this design and innovating it to your ability tho. build something that comes to your mind. it’ll be so much better in the long run.

In very basic terms, find two points that are close together when the catapult is in its fired, or more vertical position (what it would look like after its fired a shot), and far apart when the catapult is in its primed position (what it would look like before its about to shoot) and then put your …

Okay, that makes more sense, thank you! also do you have to use pneumatics made/sold by vex, or can you buy a similar one online?

All questions regarding legality can be answered in the game manual: https://content.vexrobotics.com/docs/2022-2023/vrc-spin-up/VRC-SpinUp-Game-Manual-2.2.pdf

Use vex sold pneumatics but catapults can definitely be made without pneumatics

Okay big update, robot is fully assembled, and we got to full testing yesterday, turns out some unseen issues were found, (compression, other random things) but we already got to work this morning. intake has been given a little modification to work better with our steep intake ramp, and it works mu…

What’s the advantage of having a steep intake ramp and steep disc loading well/bucket?

no advantage really, its just what fit our design constraints.

5842Z CAD reveal

VEX V5 General Discussion VEX Robot Showcase

VexTeamZ November 21, 2022, 5:44pm 75

How’d this go?