My teams season is over, we sold at regions. Our last tournament was U.S Open. I was wondering, When is the earliest you can start next years season. I figured since it is only about a month until next seasons game is revealed, my team could start setting up the Team dynamic, and other things like building drive Bases.
- Take a break? Burnout in Elementary School is ugly. Decompress, touch the grass, fly kites, ride bikes, …
- Implement that new parts sorting plan you had. I just finished a more detailed sort that has me building an new parts tower to hold the new tackle boxes.
- Build a fun robot? We are getting ready to build R2D2 from the other thread since that looks like fun.
But mostly things that are not competition related.
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Just curious what team were you at U.S. open? I would recommend waiting till the game is revealed however if you would like or are bored building several different drivetrains with chain be gears and testing different ratios can be a great use of time. I also use this time to develop codes like P.I.D. Which we use almost every season
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It doesn’t really matter when, but at this time you can because you’re already out and most likely have a lot of time on your hands. My team and I have been working already on a new notebook and framing for our V5 bot.
We were 7702A, in the Red devision, how about you?
Burn out is 1000% real, but your ways can be expanded on. Here is some things you can do that can better your team for robotics while not doing robotics.
• if it’s nice outside, go play tag or some outside game for team building
• go somewhere fun- a park, zoo, bowling etc. also for team building
• although this is robotics related, build something funny or fun, not something mandatory or on a deadline.
• (best idea) taking a break from robotics, as foster stated
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I highly disagree. I wouldn’t build a fun robot, I would challenge myself to build an insane robot. Try to learn as much as you can while if it works doesn’t matter. If you need help dm me on discord, vexgeek no spaces no caps.
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So i think that this kind of fits Foster’s point… also I’m pretty sure your building robots for fun so this theoretical “insane” robot would still be for fun. and that R2D2 robot mentioned in the other thread definitely has a bunch of mechs and stuff to learn from.
what i did when my seasons ended prematurley was i just learned mechs and different systems. For example in Tipping point my season ended at states and it was my first year, i used youtube to teach myself about Ratchets, catapults, motorsahring systems like PTO and differentials. the PTO’s and Ratchets helped me a bunch the following season in Spin up. In iq when my season ended early i just challenged myself to see if i could build the chian robots from youtube. The china teams often have all kinds of super neat mechs and build quality things that go relativley un-noticed but make hge differences in preformance. After missing out on regionals in ring-master (long time ago ;( ) I built variouse drive bases like the H drive and X drive. i also spent alot of time trying to figure out different lift systems and passive systems, spent alot of time tryna figure out the passive ring plungers. These systeams helped me a bunch in hte following season and I used the concept of hte H-drive i had spent working on over the summer for that seasons bot with a tensioned middle wheel so that it would be able to push even on un-even feilds.
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We were 1901B in the red division as well great job
Maybe you could start on a drivetrain.
Of course, as you probably already know, we won’t know what to build until about may 14 (when the game is revealed).
You could use this extra time to make a very efficient drivetrain, or as @Foster recommended, you could stretch your legs, take a break from robotics a little bit, and then come back once your ready to.
(I’m only saying to build a drivetrain because that is almost always what you have to do for every vex iq game, I am just predicting that you will most likely have to build one for next years game.)
I was talking to the parent of one of my roboteers. They were thankful their season had ended, the crunch at the end was a lot to manage with the other kids and activities.
So maybe “Parent burnout of Elementary School roboteers is ugly” should be what I wrote.
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Yeah, for at least for IQ I thought it would be fun to make a really good bot, Drivetrain PTO’s, Differential PTO’s, Maybe X drive. I would at least CAD it. My team is a Home Team, and the Parents are exhausted. I don’t think any of them will want to robotics for a month.
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