Just an idea I came up with today, would a spring loaded cube container work? I’m thinking that this system would be mostly passive. The intake portion would be some passive mechanism. So when you want to deposit your stack, there is another mechanism on the bottom of the intake that when it is acti…

It may be possible and saves motors , but the first thing that comes to mind is how easy it would be for other team to bump the trigger and release the cubes. Overall, its a good concept but probably hard to implement effectively.

This “switch” would be less than 1 inch off the ground so it would be very difficult for another team to interact with.

Fair enough. What is the orientation of the tray, vertical, horizontal, or diagonal and how would it intake?

I was thinking vertical on a DR6B. The lift is still questionable. The intake would be some passive mechanism. Pushing the intake down a cube would intake it.

Is the passive mechanism anything like the one in @Codec ’s 3rd design?

Just so you know, you can’t really use springs in vex so you’ll likely have to substitute it with rubber bands.

I know that, I put it in my original post.

oops, sorry i guess i missed it

There are springs in both the old green clutches for the 3-wire motors (276-1098, discontinued) and in the old claw assembly, actually.

Spring Loaded Cube Holder?

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