Why do people keep talking about making turrets, I understand the benefits of having one but for vex it just seems unnecessary. lining up with x drive would take the same amount of time in my mind.

Hey, what are you guys doing about the wires? Currently we’re trying to think of some wacky design for the wires to make it rotate as much as we want, but we’re trying to figure out A) how to do it and B) if we can even do it VEX legal. I’m sure there’s some other method, or just everyone’s ignoring…

My plan is not to have a 360 rotating turret. First off 360 degree rotating turret seems very difficult to get working well with disks and the limitations of vex hardware. Not doing full 360 also prevents wire tangling, and I feel like about 270 degrees of movement should be enough for most purpos…

[image] YesSir: as for the using vision to aim thread, id just like to make it clear that the vision is extremely dependent on lighting. if your event has bad lighting, you’re completely screwed. Would the optical sensor work as a substitute?

I thought about this as well, but what I realized is the discs this year are not spherical, they are flat. If you were to shoot a ball upwards at an angle, it would create that kind of curve, but because the discs are flat, they won’t follow the same pattern. If you throw a frisbee up at an angle, i…

I suggest you take a look at this topic. The discs actually behave more similar to a ball than you might think. [image] Spin Up Kinematics Graphing Tool VRC > Spin Up (22/23) Hello! I was thinking about how best to launch rings into the Spin Up high goals and I created a…

Also look at this topic if you want to know more about the flight path of the discs [image] Are discs frisbees: No? VRC > Spin Up (22/23) Are discs frisbees pt.2 Comming soon Are these questions going to be answered who know?!?

That is very interesting I did not know that.

In vex change up I did 400rpm 4 motor drive and it worked great. [image] Bean: are you sure you will be able to run 600 rpm direct drive? very sure of this.

I think that it would be nice if there were GPS strips on the fields, for this reason. The vision sensor could be really picky with lighting, but with the GPS sensor, you could probably make a program that always has the turret pointed at the goal, which would be really handy and just cool.

Put one inertial sensor on the turret and pair it with odometry and bam you have all you need to always aim at the basket.

Spin up turrets?

VEX V5 Robotics Competition VRC > Spin Up (22/23)

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Also look at this topic if you want to know more about the flight path of the discs