Greetings all. I am the programmer of 7121B. I’ve assembled a group of 6 teams:
Our team
42690A Anonymous’s
Pyrotechnic’s
SeenSeal’s
EcstaticPilot’s
And finally, Skynet’s, if his team agrees with him.
And we are the beginning of the Turret Lagann Alliance.
We’re a group of teams dedicated to the turret design, and wish to see it reach its full potential. We will aid each other when needed, collaborate on some overarching ideas, and hopefully get each other to worlds.
Some rules:
No freebies. You can’t just give people your CAD, you have to help them understand and grow as a roboticist.
To be a member, you must be making a turret and have some experience in VEX. If you are in at the beginning and choose to switch to a more conventional design, we’ll ask you to leave. It’s nothing personal, it’s just that there’s a specific purpose this alliance intends to fulfill, that being a turret think tank. We’ll probably still help you out anyways with whatever you need, you’ll just formally be out of the alliance.
You have the ability as a programmer to keep some things secret. Not everyone wants to give all their code away, especially if it’s something near revolutionary for VEX. I don’t know if we’re going to get anything “revolutionary”, but if you so wish, I give you 100% approval to not mention the existence of parts of your code for the sake of confidentiality. We aren’t married to you lol
And that’s about it.
If you’re doing a turret and wish to join us, DM me with some of your recorded matches, maybe some ideas of your coding level, and some pictures of your robot from the past two years (if applicable to VRC).
I got a logo in store, but we’re still deciding on it lol. I’ll post it here whenever we decide and make it
I’m concerned already. We’re going to have to watch y’all carefully. I suppose the obvious solution is to attempt to create a counter confederacy, but my team isn’t well known enough, and we work alone. Let the war begin. Builders, Programmers, Drivers: the time has come for all vexers to make a choice. A choice between good and evil. Between winning and turrets.
i am building a turret! i am from a first year team in witchita kansas and i am interested in learning more about turrets in VEX robtocics spin up! Please reach out to me about joining the alliance because our team has a very competitive turret built at the moment and are interested in tuning it!!
I’d be in if it weren’t for 6 motor drive train. I’m curious about how you’re gearing everything else. 1 for flywheel, one for intake and rollers? Hmmmm. I keep thinking there are a lot more required functions until I actually start thinking about them. With pneumatic or passive expansions… There’s room to play.
The aim of the differentials are to eliminate the need for the center wheels and the power from the extra 2 motors would leave the system through the 4 omni wheels
It would work better on a mecanum drive however the vex mecanum wheels suck
You will see it in cursed images soon
I see. Differentials are an interesting concept, I’ve never fully dived into them. Don’t think you can use them with sprockets, so I don’t think I can do them. Even if I could though I probably wouldn’t. Could just use a ratchet (I think) on the intake
