I think catapults are totally not efficient, and quite inaccurate
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Turning Point would like to kindly disagree.
I, conversely, think flywheels will be hard to use with the balls squishy and compliant shape.
Regardless, I am always happy to see many different designs perform well rather than just a single meta design. (You should’ve seen our team watching the Asia-Pacific team with a triple lift design at Overall Finals last night!)
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Yeah, the difference in opinions of things is going to make for some epic bots
“Really Strong” DR4B with IQ parts is a difficult task.
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I am up to the challenge, our temporary mock up for it can already reach the high hang w/ a load of the balls.
any word on the notebooks? digital or reg or either? thanks
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Official word won’t come until the judge guide is released some time in the summer – last year’s has a release date of 8/14/2020.
But unofficially, given that LRT and remote skills-only events are sticking around for 2021-22, there will need to be some guidelines for digitally submitting notebooks for remote judging.
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I was thinking of a bot close to 1104 nothing but net flywheel bot. The low bars may mean the robot needs to expand and shrink
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That’s a great idea (and a beautiful bot), but one-wheel flywheels are especially hard to get right in IQ, due to the lack of flexible plastic. That being said, I’d love to see someone build one!
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would hexbug plastic used on the caution tape bot be a good substitute for lexan?
Maybe, but I would try to go with either catapults or possibly a double flywheel. Maybe something more similar to the 8059 turning point robots?
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The mechanisms used in VRC for catapults involve shaving gears to make a slip gear setup.
If anything the herobot that is given to IQ might be a good way if it can be perfected so you can do a faster rapid fire setup
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Will flywheels work with the squishy balls?
This design could possibly be viable for this year’s game and doesn’t need any slip gears.
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If your robot is sturdy enough, you could make a rubber band powered lift like the ones from Starstruck.
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Isn’t there a height limit though
Are you reminding us, because you have read rule G5 of the game manual, or asking because you haven’t read rule G5 yet?
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I’m a high school student doing vex V5 but my team and I will volunteer at a vex camp this summer and I have a few questions about vex IQ pitching in. I haven’t done vex IQ in years so I forget some general IQ rules. What is the motor limit for the robot for this year(pitching in)?
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