My middle school competition team would like to use some of the design element fro the 12" robot that you said was build for college. we can’t see as much as we would like from the Youtube video. Do you have any drawings, sketches or pictures you would not mind sharing? we will give credit where it is due. If you feeling generous please email.
Thanks
RP
SHS/SMS Universal Robotics
Just for the clarification, that robot doesn’t belong to Tabor473. The people you are looking for are Owen and I. We came up with the design right after the World Championship. We were 4886a for Sack Attack.
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Nothing is really hiding from the viewers. It’s just a 2 motor 6 bar. The drive can be done differently, we just had to do it that way so it would fit inside the college size limits.
-Robert
The robot belongs to Robert(banditofernando). I just meant before that it was built for the BNS college team so I CAN answer questions. Robert knows the robot better as he built it.
Haha so true 
You should check out the information on 6 Bars, Tank Drives, the NZ Gateway Intake, and Toss Up Intakes for help replicating this design. The details are left up to you.
Thanks, we were working on the lift but could not get the height for the 24" goal for b-balls
Here’s a better picture of the robot itself.
clicky
The robot is in my dorm room right now if you want to know something specific.
https://vexforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7605
We didn’t really do much planning before building it, as it was based off common gateway robots. I am currently drawing out diagrams for how to improve it, but I don’t really feel like sharing those anytime soon.
Are you sure you don’t to help out some struggling middle school competition team with some down under design? The team is working on the intake and how it folds back.You know we yanks always need help. Help us kick a few high school teams butts. Pictures or diagrams of the intake would be great. I do not think you masterpiece and our robot will ever cross paths. how is the sucking up going so far?
Thanks
RP
Usually what you want to do for the intake folding down is you have your actual intake on a pivot, then have standoffs or Screws or whatever you want to be a stop, and have rubber bands pull it down. When you set it up for autonomous, you want to have it stay in place with friction or latch that comes loose when you spin your intake. It really isn’t too hard of a concept if you look at many pictures of gateway robots.
The pivot is two long screws on each side covered in spacers and held on my nylock nuts. The key is to get the center of gravity far enough out that the whole front part will flip out easily. This is one of the reasons to have the motors on the bottom, the other being that it makes room to have big ball intake extensions on the top.
We did ours on an axle. It needs some work still, obviously, but you can find some pictures and descriptions of the pivot on our website. It’s one of the easiest thing I’ve built for this robot.
Really, anything will work. Just don’t make it too right.
Yeah, slightly wrong seems to work better
Having it just 1 degree or so past the center of gravity will help it drop down with the sudden change in direction.
Stupid autocorrect. I meant to say tight. We put too many spacers on the axle at one point, basically sandwiching the intake so tightly it couldn’t fall.
It’s sort of loose now, but it works. So why change it?
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