kmmohn
December 8, 2021, 8:06pm
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Again?, How about limiting this discussion to once a year…
Keep in mind 2 things: (1) RECF makes the rules, not VEX, and they are a nonprofit. (2) VEX makes educational products, they do not make the rules, and the competitive robotics market is probably not a big driving force for their economic/business model.
With VEX Robotics allowing lexan, it allows teams the capability to cut the lexan sheets and create something that is unique to their robot. But the issue about lexan is that it is almost impossible to cut lexan like a CNC would. CNC’s give teams extreme advantages, one being the capability to do extreme measurements and cutting to be able to have efficiency so high that normal cutting is incapable of doing. Here is an example of a schematic @Chase1082b made for his CNC.
[cnc image]
CNC’s gi…
Continuing the discussion from A community discussion about 3D printing, 2 years after the previous community discussion
@Connor put together a list of why we should be doing 3D printing last May. Here it is a year later and it’s time again to push for 3D printing to be allowed in VRC.
The VEXU seasons have been very successful with 3D printing. A number of VRC have submitted great design winning awards of 3D printed objects. 3D printers are in most high schools and the cost of printers ha…
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