Alright, I want to reflect on the fact that although many say I have good build quality, it comes from lots and lots of redesigns and iterations. Just for jokes and giggles, with the addition of reflecting on the massive improvement your team has made from over time, post some of the wackiest, crazy robots that you believed would’ve either done well in competition or what you believed would’ve “broken the game,” or your robot had build quality so questionable you start to realize “I cannot believe I started out like that.” Allow me to begin.
This year how not to mod a clawbot it now doesn’t even hold the cubes. I previously put this in stupidest things done in vex but the build quality of this is abysmal
@2775Josh
why is this thing in the bad robots thread?
I know the tourney score mightve sucked a bit (i can’t read tourney scores) but that’s honestly still pretty impressive.
terrible pic, but its the only one I got.
description:
4m X drive
2m lift (I think)
2m claw
what I did wrong:
my claw gears were cantilevered,
my lift had one motor on the driver gear, and another motor on a different sized idler gear
I didn’t use the x drive to strafe at all (just thought it looked cool)
the claw was 1:1 and it always died
the shafts on the lift were held together with zipties to stop gear slipping
drive wheels were cantilevered
terrible driving
all keps nuts
clamping shaft collars
what I did right:
the design itself was actually one of the good designs of the season, and I came up with it independently of everyone else, since back then I had no connection with robotics teams outside of my middle school. didn’t even youtube robots then.
nothing else
In The Zone
This season was significantly better, and the highlight of my middle school career.
but this bot was still garbage.
4m drive
2m lift
2m mogo lift
1m claw
things I did wrong:
it was basically an upgraded clawbot
drive motors on the outside of the chassis (amazingly none of them broke off)
used the big boy wheels on the drive. yeah that didn’t go well, we lost our only comp due to drive burnouts.
no bearings on the mogo lift, which ended up carving out a half inch hole in my chassis
the design itself sucked.
couldn’t do 20 pt zone
Things I did right:
had god tier driving. I spend an hour a day driving for like half the season. I scored as fast as that robot was physically capable of. (not a lot, but still…)
almost won my local middle school tournament (drive died during finals)
got us to states on a 19 pt skills run cause double qual stuff
You can really see how far I’ve come, especially between itz and tp. I mean, I’m actually smart enough to use all of my motors now lol.
I’m actually sort of proud of my TT robot, but if it’s not good enough to get tc at a semi-competitive event, then it’s not good enough at all tbh. my next iteration is going to be way better.
