Cube Compression Issues and More efficient roller designs (TrayBot)

[Riptide]

@Ravendor12

to obtain more cubes I suggest adding rubber bands to your intake flaps. It may look your robot look a little jank, but it works effectively probably helping you pick up another cube or two.

I would suggest not adding rubber bands to the intake flaps because it might make the flaps positioned in inconsistent positions and like you said, this seems like a pretty jank solution. It makes more sense to put rubber bands around the sprocket closer to the inside of the robot if your rollers are not chained together or if you have arms make the arm bracing stronger so the arms don’t twist when intaking. If your robot uses Flipout rollers you could improve the hinges for the flip outs. I would also suggest using the forum search bar as there is already a lot of threads on cube compression.

How To Fix Intake Compression [Guide]

I figured out a simple and easy lock mechanism for intakes to fix nearly all compression issues. The tricky balancing game between strength, being able to bend the intakes back, the bands not snapping, and the arm spreading when the tilter is tilted forwards is solved by a simple lock as seen below or on youtube [VEX Intake Locks]

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