(Repost becuase the other comment was “flagged”) Hey! This is a topic I created to talk about how were going to create flying robots and wipe out humanity. We have found that there is no rules against flying robots. Our aim is to make a legal VEX drone that is useable in VEX tournaments

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The real rule against flying robots is G3: Use common sense. When reading and applying the various rules in this document, please remember that common sense always applies in the VEX Robotics Competition. Who in their right [redacted] mind would actually try and build a competitive robot to fly…

[image] Xenon27: I get that propellers are way to dangerous for a vex competition environment, but what if we just made a robot that flaps really hard? Blimp! With no expansion limit in Tower Takeover, we got to do Blimp! [mz-3a] You could store helium or hydrogen in the pneumatic tanks. T…

And I thought that water game was a meme…

ummm so what you all are saying is make a plexiglass container, fill it with helium, and do what??? blimps are mostly for advertising not picking up ups boxes.

I agree, especially since your robot will weigh at least 5 pounds with all the gearing and components. Since your drone isn’t advanced enough, it is more likely than not that a small tap or gust will send your drone spiralling out of control

As someone who has reffed a few competitions, a blimp is the only flying robot that I would pass in inspection. Provided it is Helium. Hydrogen is dangerous. But, to my knowledge, pneumatics can be whatever gas.

I believe it has been specified in the past that pneumatics must be pressurized with “standard earth air” or something to that effect.

I’m no physicist, but to rise, something must fall. Unless you drop your reservoir once it is empty (illegal) you aren’t getting off the ground.

the air falls, if you increase volume without increasing mass, which is what happens with a Roblimp^TM, than it will rise because of buoyancy.

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