Seeing as there is a Cursed Images thread, I wanted to create a Blessed Images thread to showcase the community’s most satisfying moments and robot builds in Vex. I’ll go first.
They most likely used purple rit dye to dye the parts purple. You put the parts in a pot with the dye and heat it to a simmer to get the dye to go into the plastic. I haven’t tried this, but there are threads about dyeing parts. Here’s a website referenced in another thread: https://www.ehow.com/how_8550306_dye-plastic-rit-dye.html.
If you can’t tell this is 140 points in skills Auton. The robot is only about 2cm away from the platform. I feel a bit stupid because most of you will have gotten a much higher skills score, but we were ranked the highest in England for about 1/2 a year.