So excited to be a part of the science division! Looks like there are a lot of strong teams here, and it’ll be fun to compete with and against them!
For anyone who did not catch our reveal video, here it is.
Our robot is mostly specialized in cube efficiency, but we do have skyrise building capabilities as well. Since our 2 cube intake is passive, this means that our robot is that much more reliable because there is no chance for an electrical failure happening to our needle. Both of our intakes are passive, and we’re using 8 motors total on our robot, 4 on the lift and 4 on the drivetrain.
Ideally, we would ally with a strong, reliable, and efficient Skyrise building robot, while we take care of the posts.
Although I don’t yet have a video worked out (and am unsure if we will end up releasing one) I thought I’d share a small bit about our bot.
2560e has completely changed over the course of the season. We began with a chainbar swinging skyrise arm and a one cube capacity (see: VEX Skyrise Newmarket VRC Finals 1 - YouTube) NOTE VIDEO ABOVE IS OF OLD ROBOT
We then switched to a 2 cube capacity needle, with no skyrise arm.
We now have:
6 motor lift (geared to fast) with 21:1 gearing
4 motor in-line omni base
3 cube passive needle
Our current autonomous routine scores 10 points on the cube side. The additional cube that our needle has over traditional Needles allows for very quick scoring of pyramid and normal cubes.
Our needle also has 2 stages allowing us to score cubes on individual posts if we choose, instead of all cubes being scored on one post.