I would like to know some mix and match design ideas to inspire me.
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I’m thinking of a bot with three main parts
- a loading section
- a building section
- a placing section
I believe that the Building section will be the most diverse and challenging section.
My idea is to have three hoppers all together having space at the bottom for a beam so that you can make a multi stack.
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The hero bot hasn’t been officially released yet, but from the mix and match video, it looks like a claw that can raise and lower that picks up pins and stacks them.
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Double reverse 4 bar linkage. You really want the height, the forklift on the linear slides will only get you so far.
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again, a dr4b would help
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So you will note, no drive base. This was on a 6 wheel drive base, center friction, outer omni.
You will also note that the brain is on top. This was a demo, “telepresence” robot, where you would see a mini face on the screen. It was also a demo on how much it would lift, it manages the brain and the battery pretty well.
Of course this makes it a little top heavy, hence the bigger base that it sits on.
You’ll see that it’s flat plates, it’s part of my flat to wheels system. I build bases that will snap onto the flat plates, then build linkages / operations that fit on the flat plates. This lets me move bases around, operations around. I have an ever growing collection of sample robots, this gives me the ability to quickly put things together for a demo.
The take away is if this linkage can go this high AND with a brain on top, a little set of changes should make it easy to grab game elements and lift them up to the top of anything.
Sorry for the lack of awesome backgrounds. I pulled it out of the famed robot garage and did two quick pictures.
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Just make a scaled-down one of these and you’ll be fine.
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It actually just released and they have instructions for it already.
I was thinking some kind of upwards conveyer belt that can store pins and then release them into a tower. There would be two converter belts on either side of the pin with flaps that hold up the pin. When enough pins are stored the conveyer belts would pull away with pneumatics so the pins fall into a tower. I’ll make a sketch later.
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What is the weight of each piece??
Just the picture is there, no instructions yet. It’s an annual thing that all the key staff in RECF and VEX take off for 3 weeks after worlds.
Actually no idea why they posted the just the picture, the link to the instructions would have taken seconds more. But that’s how it works out.
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If only, but yes, mentally we all need a break from competition, even if we are still working on other things.
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Oh, that’s my bad. (20 characters)
Some kinda robot with a Ferris wheel type thing that can expand vertically via the lift mechanism used in full volume’s landslide robot. It has claws on either end of the wheel that are powered by pneumatics. It’ll prob use a diffy pto splitting 4 motors among the lift and Ferris wheel. It also has a kinda mech on the back that grabs a stack with a claw.
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when did I miss this memo?
I was in the office the day after I got home 
Hero Bot Instructions are coming. Plan is to be complete by end of month!
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RECF took three days: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We’re back at work today!
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Yay! Looking forward to seeing them!
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I was think of something like a crab, with two one long claw and some divider in the middle, and a aligned of the pins in the front of the drivetrain some when you have two pins in alignment, you could just pick them up two at a time
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Lemme guess, would speed be one of the most key points in this game?