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Puncher Help

See also: slip gears
Advanced topic: adjustable angle punchers

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Best Ball Launcher for Accuracy?

If done properly, catapult can be even more efficient than flywheel.

8059A and D : SingVex (Reveal)
8059D Catapult Hybrid: Singapore VEX 2016 Edition (Reveal)
2-Ball Catapult vs 1-Ball Flywheel

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Clawbot I and Clawbot II - the design challenges

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Quadriple Reverse 8 Bar lift(QR8B)

This is a four bar:

Different lifts?

6 Bar

https://challenges.robotevents.com/challenge/37/entry/1402

Six-Bar Linkages

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Chain Lift - AURA

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DR4B Tutorial by 333A

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Scissor Lift Help

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Cascade lift motors

Cascades can go way higher

@Doctortictac is a better wiki editor than @Illyana

Cascade lift motors

Cascade

Continuous

99371a cascade lift explanation

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=vex+1103

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Peaucellier Lift:

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#64 Rubber Bands

I have direct experience with all types of alliance and the platinum crepe bands.
Get the platinum crepe. They are leagues better and almost never break. Only reason I would not recommend them is if s very precise amount of banding is needed or you want weak bands, and they are nearly twice as strong as alliance.

DR4B Tutorial by 333A

Rubber Banding Resources:

See the rest of @therealcedz UTRBs post...

Most teams use this sort of rubber band system on their lift (4 bar, 6 bar, 8 bar, etc.): <a href="http://i.imgur.com/EOkMWQx.png" rel="nofollow noopener">[image]</a> This system is great due to complexity vs. effectiveness. Just by putting a couple of pieces of metal (in this case, standoffs and screws) and rubber bands, the stress on the motors is greatly reduced. However, some of you m…

Non Latex Rubber Bands

Hello! Our team was recently at a competition, and another team that we were alliance parters with told us that the rubber bands we used were not allowed since they were latex based. They said that we could only use non latex based rubber bands. Is this true? I haven’t found anything in the rules stating that they are not legal. They are size #64

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Should Lexan usage be banned?

This is a spin-off thread from this 3D pringing thread which resulted in a fairly lengthy conversation on why Lexan should be deemed as a non-usable resource from @TaranMayer. I have simply moved it over to a new thread to prevent the old one from being heavily derailed.

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