Here are the Vexmen reveals. Sorry it’s not as fancy as we would like we’re all still scrambling to get ready for worlds.
Middle School Robots:
Team 80Y Cypher
Qualification path: PA States Middle School Design Award Winner
This robot has a double reverse 4 bar lift and an X holonomic base. But what is special about it is what they termed “Project X” and worked on since last summer. It is a linkage that grabs the syrise and flips it 360 over the motion of the arm.
You can see it in action via their innovate award video. Here’s Project X in action.
Team 80N Nightcrawler
Qualification path: PA States Middle School Excellence Award Winner
Nightcrawler is back with a new crew and they are ready to play. Having come up through the ranks in FLL, the Nightcrawler team is a top notch team for their first year in Vex. They won the Excellence Award at PA States and have been practicing ever since. Here they come!
Team 81M Mystique
Qualification path: PA States High School Design Award Winner, PA Programming Skills Winner (24 points)
Mystique is no stranger to World Championships and is coming back for more. They concentrated on winning programming skills in PA with a 5 skyrise high stack built from a pantograph scissor based sweeping arm/claw robot. But then they decided to go for it and rebuild for worlds! It goes higher, lifts faster with 36 tooth linear track lift, and stays straighter than the previous design.
Here’s a sneak peek at the new scissor design. Inspired by 80Y’s Project X tight tolerances, there are no screw heads to collide here!
81M New Scissor Inside view
And here’s the bomb of a mess they left behind in the basement…
. So how much of a reveal is it now?)Sorry there was no Spanish translation
