My school is broke and we need to have a intake but no flywheel.I ONLY NEED PICTURES AND VIDEOS. I am building a push bot that has a bar spinner on the side and a intake that can hold 3 disks.

Read through this thread if you haven’t yet: [image] Flex Wheels Updates From VEX VEX V5 General Discussion Flex Wheels seem to be a popular topic so far this season… VEX would like to address a few things regarding Flex Wheels, VersaHex Adapters, VersaHubs, and alternat…

You can intake with sprockets/rubber bands. You can launch w/ a solid rubber wheel… and the data shows that wheel to be far more efficient also. Cheap…

Your description of what you want your robot to be seems a little like the hero bot this year… check it out!! [VRC Spin Up - Hero Bot "Disco" - Part 1]

If he says he still does not have enough parts, then I shall be at a loss for words, for the Hero Bot is designed with the very thought of parts limitations in mind.

Also, I’m curious, where do I find the aforementioned data?

A thread of mine. Tested all available wheels, recorded data, graphed it, published it.

Did you try intake rollers ? I use them for my intake because I can’t use flex wheels and they work perfectly if not better than flex wheels since they have fingers to hold on the disks.

[image] theosa: can you link it here please Open the search box, and type “turbodog test wheels” [image]

I need intakes that have no flex wheels and is easy to build

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holbrook November 9, 2022, 3:51pm 2

Read through this thread if you haven’t yet: