A new lift concept from the sound, perfectly sane, and genius engineering masterminds of 1727B. We’ve realized how good we are at this vex thing after the banshee drive’s success. so we would like to present to you the newest hip lifter for Vex (its technical name is scrappy). but all jokes aside, this lift, while flipping us over, lifts very fast, and doesn’t rely on our partners drive train. in addition, because it locks as it goes, you just lift until the match ends if you are late for climbing and you will at least get a low climb even if you didn’t quite get a full 50 pt climb.
The plate is held on by ropes, until we drop it using a cut gear wih rope. Then, a linear slide “foot” angles our robot up from the back. The plate is held in place by ropes. As our robot angles, the other robot is lifted up, also being angled
The way this design looks is awesome but from a event coordinator stand point it scares me. They way you are pushing up off the floor looks like it is going to damage tiles.
There is a plate on a hinge at the bottom that helps. It leaves a little indent, but as someone who has helped run and ref several competitions, its not actually that bad.
It’s not my robot but as you can see in the video, the plate does bend a little but the angle that the slides give prevents the other robot from falling