Tower takeover design

[matttt]

For those people who thought of internal stacking the cubes just like in the zone, what mechanisms have you thought of to make sure that the stack wouldn’t fall as the robot is moving around? My initial design was to make some sort of vertical bars that would flip open (using rubber bands) to a higher height when the match starts and use them to make sure that the stack wouldn’t fall. I thought of using rubber bands because there’s no motor left… I did realize that this design has many flaws. What are your thoughts?

[JamsG]

Extending Reverse Stacker Idea

Reverse stacking is when you build your stack by putting cubes on the bottom. I want to do this for tower takeover game but it requires the stack of cubes to not fall over. I came up with an idea to reverse stack and passively hold the cube stack. It uses a sort of back-plate that can extend freely. The back-plate gets pushed by the cubes in the stack. By mounting the whole mechanism at an angle one side can be open and allow the robot to deposit the cube stack quickly and easily. Here is an a…

This “magazine” style cube storage

Though still a concept righ now I can see a solid amount of teams doing this

[Deicer]

I think it’s worth considering that once a new cube is aligned on a stack, it might not really need to be adjusted because it’s already in line with the other cubes.