So, my students have asked me about getting some ball bearings for their robot’s wheels.
I like the idea but I have no clue if this is a legal build material. We are competing in “Tipping Point”. We go through the Create division. If anyone knows anything please, let me know.
Game-Manual-1.1.pdf
If you look through this, it tells you what are legal and what are not.
If parts are listed as v5 compatible on vexrobotics.com, then they are legal. While vex does make ball bearings, they are listed as vexpro parts and therefore not vrc legal.
The V5 workcell kit does happen to contain a few vexPro ball bearings I believe, which should be legal to use. Probably not worth the cost out the whole kit for a few bearings though.
Where do you see those? I can’t see any details about the specific construction materials, and not in any of the pictures. Are they included in the arm, maybe?
Well, he did say they would be competing in the create division. I believe they have different rules for what is legal and what isn’t. I would check the create website for that.
@technik3k- I’m interested. The document you linked was from Tower Takeover- is there one for Tipping point?
And Can you provide more information on what Create Open is like? Like how many tournaments they usually have, etc? I poked around their website and couldn’t find much useful information.
Thanks.