So we have a dumbest things for programmers and a dumbest things thread for everyone else. But we should recognize what we can do great. We all can do things in a terrific and sometimes jank way.
I will start.
The best thing i have done is take robots home and build most of them over a weekend, and help my local middle school team. And learn and be better at robotics. And keep going, even when we lost a few tournaments.
So lets celebrate what we do great!
Last year I made one of if not the first passive descorer that reached every cap
So in NRC. National Robotics Challenge. We made a wedge bot with a puncher for robo hockey and demolished. it flipped robots
my current robot is probably the best thing Iâve ever built. 20+ hours of building in the span of 2 days.
but my person favorite is probably the vex chainsaw I made in middle school. cut through pencils like butter.
Leeks?
its been many years goneâŚ
it wasnât completely made from legal vrc parts, I used a vex pro metal sprocket as the cutter. and it wasnât motor powered, it was hand cranked. so not super cool, but still pretty cool.
It would be fun to see if itâs possible to make a powered one out of only EDR parts.
I built a kiwi drive. And then a four thirds kiwi drive.
We used screw joints in middle school
Long story short, last year I completely screwed up,
for our first competition (in January) all we had was a flipper that spun at Mach 12. As a âimprovementâ we added a post de scorer aka a bar that swung at Mach 2. Our chassis was too low so we couldnât even park. The robot was trash, but everything could be repaired in 1 minute max, so I drove hyperagro, and had a good time.
A few years ago I decided to procrastinate on the program until last minute (the night before states). I somehow managed to pull an all-nighter (with some help from my good âold friend caffeine) and spent the whole night programming. Tbh, the program itself was actually pretty decent, and we got second in skills.
I dunno if that counts as something that I âbuiltâ.
Last year I had to evacuate because of the Woolsey Fires and my school was in the evacuation zone aswell, I had signed up for a robot comp that Saturday (this was on Monday) but I couldnât get to the robot cuz, ya know, fires so I did what anyone would do while evacuating and asked a bunch of teams I knew if I could borrow their old cortex stuff. One team lent me electronics and the USC team let me use their metal and space for 5 hours. I built a fully functional cap bot in 5 hours and went to the comp, I ended up tying a couple matches, we never lost caps, and I won judges award. Pretty damn great if u ask me lul.
(If your wondering what the thing on the back is we could ram it into another bot and then if we lifted the arm that would lift their side a bit and the EZ push)
The best thing my team and two other teams was a robot that first graders could build and last year me and my friend made a robot that could change without using extra moters and my tram from last year made a butifull steam project
Not something I âmade,â but I still think itâs kinda cool. Led to a TC.
Definitely my scored cap reverser that only took up 1 cortex motor, never saw any other teams have something like it.
Or my 1 motor intake/indexer that could still outake to flip caps.
Also this robot arm that followed your movements was a fun little project, not necessarily hard but was fun.
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