Has anyone (competitively) used a kiwi drive robot for vex iq?

Im going to make a forklift kiwi drive for this years game. I hope it works!

Excellent. Good luck and show pics, vids please.

Can you please explain a little more of what is meant by kiwi drive and forklift kiwi drive?

Kiwi drive is a cute name for a 3 wheeled omni-directional robot you’ll find on the page of IQ robot builds.

Thanks. Interesting idea. That would be cool to see it combined with some scoring functionality.

[image] kmmohn: Kiwi drive is a cute name for a 3 wheeled omni-directional robot you’ll find on the page of IQ robot builds. happened to see this post on Chief Delphi a few days ago. https://www.chiefdelphi.com/t/mecanum-vs-poor-mans-mecanum/359594/10

iv seen people compete with holonomic drive in ringmaster and a few older games than that but they have never bean the meta but they did okay because in iq you have the pesky 6motor limitation so you only have 2 motors left for your lift system but in this years game you probably just want somthing …

The 6 motor limit does require the students to do a lot of creative thinking and figuring out where they can compromise… 2 motors for drive train, minimum Some mechanism for getting the balls to the top of the cubes (1 or 2 motors) Some mechanism for lifting cubes to platforms (1 or 2 motors) Po…

yes but where in that configuration can one spar 3 motors for a kiwi drive or 4 for a holonomic it requires a lot of passive mechanisms and creativity