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.
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”.
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.
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 we are the ones with the BIG claw (auton OP) 2017 VRC Tech Q221 - 224X 3116A vs 6603H 5691X - 48 to 16 - YouTube
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.