A few monthes ago earlier this year, Vex was something far out of reach for me, something which I also had no information about. Back then I was the project manger for my team(38474 Polaris) there were tasks which were assigned around the team. It made it easier to keep track of tasks which had to b…

Do you get more people from other teams who have not made it into worlds to assist your team?

Yes. When we go to worlds, our core team usually adopts a third member (coach/scout), and we have other club members dedicated to scouting.

That’s reasonable, is your team part of an organization?

Yes, we have funding, management, administration, and coaching done for us (by the school district, our coach, and parents). We have had in the past few years about 3 competitive teams in our club, but mine is the only one who made it to worlds last year.

So then your teams combined when you went to worlds?

No, you would not use it for actual competitions as it would not be able to compete with all the robots there. Besides, why would you compete with the bully-but if you already have a robot that is better that it. It is primarily used to train for competitions.

Do you have a picture of the Bully bot which you used?

[image] [image] [image] [image] The first image is of our sister team’s bully-boy. It could only flip the caps on the floor and had a 2-motor drive. My team’s bully-boy could get onto the platforms, de-score caps on the lower poles and could flip caps on the ground. Both could toggle the lower fla…

We had to use hinges and rubber bands to fold the part of the lift that allowed us to de-score caps to have it be within the size limits (but even so we loosely followed those for the bully-bots). If I were to build one for this year, I would use a 6-motor drive with a 6-bar and 2-cube capacity claw…

when I practice driving I have a teammate mess with the bot and throw prices around and generally cause chaos.

Project Mangement

VEX V5 Robotics Competition VRC > Tower Takeover (19/20)

RoboCatz August 14, 2019, 12:06am 39

It’s especially great if the members of your team don’t meet that often or live far away from each other. Take team 240P, for example.

They used CAD to prototype their “High Quality” robot as they did not meet that often.