How do you make a v5 claw for this years game

sway199 · October 28, 2020, 10:18pm

im having trouble making a claw for my robot to fit this years ball.

aryan.pradhan · October 28, 2020, 10:21pm

dont make a claw bot

FRC973 · October 28, 2020, 10:21pm

Can you be a little more specific? Maybe post a picture of how you are doing so far, and then we will be able to help you better. For starters, searching YouTube for videos can help you design a claw.

sway199 · October 28, 2020, 10:31pm

ok i will do that now

sway199 · October 28, 2020, 10:33pm

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sway199 · October 28, 2020, 10:34pm

i just need a claw but i am not using the one i got in my kit

aryan.pradhan · October 28, 2020, 10:42pm

just replace the “claw” parts with a longer c-channel?

sway199 · October 28, 2020, 10:42pm

im not sure how to do that

Logan_Baxter · October 28, 2020, 10:56pm

You can try to maybe make a bigger claw using c-channel pieces

sway199 · October 28, 2020, 10:54pm

oh i get it but i am going to make something els

FRC973 · October 28, 2020, 10:56pm

If you are using a clawbot base and are new to VEX V5, I would suggest building this for starters as your claw. Then you can innovate and take inspiration from others.

Logan_Baxter · October 28, 2020, 10:57pm

That’s an interesting design @FRC973

Logan_Baxter · October 28, 2020, 10:57pm

It would be a good basic robot for beginners this year

Logan_Baxter · October 28, 2020, 11:00pm

This would also be an interesting robot to use

FRC973 · October 28, 2020, 11:12pm

I agree that a simple snailbot is far better than Crunch, but I was assuming that @sway199 wanted to start easy.

A snailbot is deviating from @sway199’s already made clawbot base, and if he doesn’t want to disassemble it, I would suggest something like this if Crunch is too simple or not competitive enough.

If @sway199 is up to it, I would highly suggest @Logan_Baxter’s suggestion of a simple snailbot though.