VEX IQ - Choo Choo Mechanism
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- In this year’s VEX IQ game (Pitching In), we discuss one prototype called the Choo Choo Mechanism. It is just one of many unique options for this year’s challenge. We also discuss the REC Foundation’s Student-Centered Policy, and the importance of teaching your students.
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Love this video. As a parent coach, it's always a challenge to find that balance between teaching and letting kids explore. This is a perfect balance. You have a great way of explaining things. Thank you.
Coaching robotics is the same as coaching or teaching anything else. As the rules manual states: “kids aren’t born knowing these things.” It’s our job to teach them. A lot of coaches, for some reason, think that’s against the rules. And then on the flip side, a lot of coaches seem to “take the test” or “play IN the football game” for them. Find the middle.
Thank you so much! I was struggling to get kids to see how this was to work!
Great Job Coach!
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Hey Jake, do you have a part list some where that you could link in the video notes? Thanks for sharing
Any build instructions? (Also great video!)
Tutorial please?
Can you show a video on how to make it
Thanks for the vid! My students built this and the issue they ran into is that their axle kept slipping out of the gear every 5 or 6 rotations due to the stress. Since you can’t cap that axle in any way as it would interfere with the spring release how do you keep that axle in place? There was no other side view so they had to do guess work to figure it out.
You can actually purchase capped axles and stick them through. That’ll help keep it in place.
Hello Jake! Amazing video. Love the coaching guidelines. My small group has built the mechanism. The issue we are having is that it continuously turns without stop. So the arms do throw the ball when we place the ball. But it has to stop so that it can take balls from our front intake. The arm starting point is up because the elastic pressure. I guess the arms have to start down. Is it a matter of adjusting the mechanisms’ rotation so that the arms start and finish low? Any advice? Much appreciated.
Hello! Yes, your kids will have to do a little bit of coding (not much), so that when you get into the program, the catapult lowers to your desired height for ball intake. To make it simple on your drivers, they’ll want to have one button press to launch AND rotate a certain number of degrees back to collect the balls again.
@@jakesimons09 thank you for the prompt reply. That makes sense. So the mechanism does not need adjustment for this purpose. It needs degrees of a rotation in the programming. That sounds great. Thanks so much.
its pretty much a catapult, right? cool concept tho :)
Same pfp!
The choo choo mechanism is the base for many catapult designs, which is (I would assume) why Jake posted this video.
Awesome video that I personally have used multiple times to explain this mechanism!
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