If you’re at all like our club, the prospect of the 2-foot tall Level 4 goals was exciting from a competition perspective, but less so from a storage space perspective. We use Robosource’s great (not sponsored, just personally endorsed) great foldable field risers, and having to either leave the Level 4 goals connected or screwing them and unscrewing them with each practice was not a prospect I looked forward to.
As is usual lately, I saw a problem and turned to my 3D printer to solve it. I designed a pin that can be printed with just .6g of filament, holds strong, is easily removable, and doesn’t protrude more than the screw heads!
I obviously wouldn’t recommend using this for competition, but it should hold up just fine for practice. Check it out on Makerworld!
I honestly don’t think that there is any real reason to go on the L4 goal. Like seriously.
the level 4 goals are just using normal vex iq 0x3 pins to attach them down not screws.
Its easy to clip / unclip them each time you fold it up.
The base of the goals is attached with 0x3 pins yes, but the idea is to only remove the pipe that comes up from the base (which is secured to the base with screw & bolt), not the entire base. For example:
The benefit of the foldable risers for us is that we don’t have to reattach & remove (most of) the field elements from our fields, but we can still store them vertically in fairly limited floor space (plus we save wear & tear on our fields and field elements). For us, the ~15" saved by removing the pole (per field) is the difference between being able to have a full V5 field in our space or only having 2/3 of it.
Yes, and they are more than enough. Last year I used pins instead of screws. Ran almost 1000 matches across the season and no pop-outs. I did have a field reset volunteer fall into one and the goal came out saving them from injury.
Pins for the win!!
16 points and the only thing needed is a good DR4B? Plus an easy 96 points? Now just gimme that already.
