Can I download building directions for rapid relay Fly Wheel?

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I was wondering if there were building directions for the Fly Wheel Robot. If you could find them upload them or provide tips.

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It is illegal to make instructions for a robot. However, there are some flywheel robots you can take inspiration from.

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Thank you so much. These videos are very helpful

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Rule check please on this. Make sure it has the exemption for VEX making the ā€œHero bots.ā€

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Thats true, I did forget that aspect.
@56123A VEX does have a rule allowing you to built a herobot, which is good for newer teams and specifically made to be easily modified and worked on. Other than that though instructions are highly illegal.

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Sorry, Iā€™m cranky today. ^^^ This isnā€™t a rule either. When I get asked about the VEX designed robots, I use this as the reason itā€™s OK:

Designer ā€“ The Student(s) on the Team who design(s) the Robot to be built for competition. An Adult cannot be a Designer on a Team. Adults are permitted to teach the Designer(s) associated concepts, but may never work on the design of the Robot without the Designer(s) present and actively participating. (BOLDING mine).

I say the step by step instructions are a teaching tool to show how some mechanisms could be built, and how those mechanisms can be combined to make a robot. I then push on G2 / R2 which says the robot canā€™t be built by the Adult.

In fact, just to push an unpopular opinion even farther, I think there should be more robot instructions. I would like to see the details of the choo-choo in Misfire. Iā€™d like to see the details of the flywheel spinners. And whatever the roboteers from Caution Tape Robotics come up with, they are just design geniuses.

ā€œBut Fosterā€ you say, "that wouldnā€™t be fair to the other teams. A poor team can just assemble it. " And I go "Nope, a poor team struggles with the build, a mediocre team struggles with the build quality, an average team struggles with understanding how it works. About 30 seconds of a pit interview would bring out that the teams have no real grasp, the ā€˜robot exceeds their skill levelā€™ ".

And Caution Tape doesnā€™t worry, because they wrote the code that leverages the mechanics, they drive it with a higher skill level, they know the robot inside out because itā€™s their design. And that makes a bigger difference than you think.

I think it would be fine for Ben Lipper to put out Ikea drawings of the initial Misfire. It went through 5 iterations. Iā€™d like to see the initial version of the flywheel bot (Iā€™m not remembering the name, sorry Ben). I think itā€™s gone through 3 iterations. In all those cases, let the roboteers figure the iterations out.

I had a team last year build the dump truck design. They spent hours and hours and hours to make it work and more hours and hours and hours to make it work well. They learned a lot, which is the base of the program.

I also think that RECF should take close up, detailed pictures of the top 4-8 winning robots and put them on a website. The roboteers won, we are not playing that game again, let us all marvel and applaud the work they did. I always look at the robots, I always get a sense of wonder of little things that are really awesome. Like using longer threaded bolts on collars and then screwing standoffs on them. (V5) Sun and planet gears on VIQ to make a really indestructible 4:1 gear set. You know, blinding flashes of the obvious after the flash happens.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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That is a lot, but thank you a lot

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