If you could change ONE thing about VEX

Chit-Chat / Rumor Mill
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Non-confusingness

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we have it to look forward to in vexU
But since you mentioned it
it would be cool for high school,
Custom clamps and other pieces

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Is this still competition legal? I saw that you can add it to your program in VEXCode.

R6b: Electronics from the VEX Cortex control system are not permitted. This includes the VEXnet Joystick, VEXnet Partner Joystick, VEX ARMĀ® Cortex-based Microcontroller, VEXnet Key 1.0 and 2.0, 2-Wire Motor 393, and any other electronic components which are not compatible with the VEX
V5 system

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Yeah, but 3D printing makes it hard on schools that donā€™t have much funding.

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Easier Cable Management

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It isnā€™t legal now, and I donā€™t know if it was ever legal because I havenā€™t ever seen it in competition. It would still be cool if there was a dark game where you had to use the vision sensor and the flashlight to navigate a part of the field that is pitch black. I donā€™t know how this would be made though.

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I believe you can use 3D printed parts for cable management, I could be very wrong so donā€™t quote me on that ( the rules donā€™t say no). But in my opinion, zip ties are better.

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Make better rules like change the goal hording rule.

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Water game. In an instant.

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Re: Flashlight - itā€™s from the VEX Explorer kits circa 2009? They were very cool, they had black frame pieces, much nicer than the plain metal. I remember from rules around that time that the metal was fine, the flashlight was not. The control system for the Explorer was different and part of the issue was the current flow for the flashlight was pretty high.

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I would make the v5 cables actually work after a few weeks.

uhhh Iā€™m pretty sure youā€™re probably in the wrong here in terms of electrical practices

Id have Better instructions on how to set up the board electronics.

Also what do you mean by this? VEX electronics are as plug and play as they get

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Iā€™d shut down the forum

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You dont have to be here then :confused:

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more programming support for IQ

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From my experience, the led on the V5 optical sensor is much brighter than the cortex flashlight running on the V5. It is bright enough to help a vision sensor reliably see objects at close range when ambient lighting isnā€™t good.

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What do you mean by this, can you explain in a bit more detail ?

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The biggest issue here is cost. The products I used to design for the film and broadcast industry used almost exclusively connectors from a company called Lemo. But they were often $50 and up per connector. Even at the vey low end you may be looking at $5 per connector, so it makes for very expensive products and cables.

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Maybe make add mechanical game objects. For example maybe things are on a rotating platform and there is the cube that can drive around so that way there is a bot trying to grab said scoring object while the other driver is trying to drive away from the opposing team.

Or maybe there are those balls from Nothing But Net and they sit on top of these air vents floating so you would need a high up claw to reach them.

This idea would take some serious refinement but it could be doable. Just something where not every object on the field is stationary. Maybe the cubes could move around?

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The entire point of vex is to make sure that when you win it comes down to skill alone and not how much money and skill you have

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This. This is what we need.