Your best/ worst robot ideas

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Thought it would be fun to share your best and your worst robot designs and ideas.

my best design I’ve come up with (keep in mind I only competed in In The Zone) was a mobile goal mover that had a one cone capacity from the cone loader. it was my best because it was extremely fast and reliable as well as having plenty of power.

I do not have a photo of it

Unfortunately that design was my best design because my worst design was used all the way up until mid January.

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this was my worst design, it was a fully steel DR4B base out of linear motion kits that worked in 2 stages rather than one lift working in unison.

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I don’t have pics but I made a basically vex armbot that didn’t rotate for in the zone.

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Not exactly my worst idea, but my team’s (mainly our builder): He fried building a shooter for TP, except that it would push the ball up a ramp instead of “punching it”. And instead of a slip gear, we would use linear slides to remove the gear from the “pusher”.

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A literal clawbot for starstuck. That was our first season and we won 1 match where we got carried all year

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Here is another bad design that my team tried building this year. We are wanted to have a claw on a DR4B, but this is how it turned out:

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(This photo shows the max height of the lift).

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Worst ideas: (Skyrise )using a clawbot with a larger base and 5x5 plates jutting out the back to move cube as my state robot
(NBN) Not understaning gearing so I just used all the gears for my flywheel causing a very inconsistant robot.
(ITZ) taking the motors off of my mogo lift to test a DR4B that didn’t work. When I replaced the motors the lift didn’t work again.

Best ideas: (TT) Cube catapult

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Worst: itz, a ripper, it worked well but couldn’t line up the cubes
Best: SS Huggles, Omega claw, 3rd programming skills at worlds, 15 in division but not picked even though it was 3 team alliances :frowning: we are the ones with the BIG claw :slight_smile: (auton OP)
2017 VRC Tech Q221 - 224X 3116A vs 6603H 5691X - 48 to 16 - YouTube

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Worst: For star struck my team had a rubber band catapult (which never worked) and a hook on a linear slider that partially worked for hanging. We made an agreement to never talk about it again in the Vex room.

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Here’s more vids of it in action if anyone wants

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