Vex Tower Takeover Early Season Reveal + Explanation

This is my team's First robot for the 2019-2020 season of Vex Robotics. This robot was built in three days before the Mark Leon Invitational Tournament in Honolulu Hawaii. We had built other robots, but they were much more ambitious designs that we didn't have time to properly test before the event. The event was super fun and I totally recommend going to it if you can. We ended up partnering with team 4109A from Pearl City Hawaii. They were a great teammate and we worked well together.
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[@madingwang7778]

This is like the simple design that a team needs when they only have 2 weeks to build and program a robot

[@joshkuakini4104]

You guys dragged me down in the 1st match at MLI ;-;

[@meepmeepme]

Dragged down as in pulled his robot down so he tipped

[@nicholass6835]

I'm new to vex and I love watching your videos to learn more

[@nickyg9012]

Hi,
Great job!! Keep posting it's very helpful and appreciated to us Newbies!! Any build suggestions for this years competition would be greatly appreciated. We are new to VEX

[@tthienhoang5979]

Thank you for sharing...what a great robot!

[@3lwei]

What of materials are you using to cover those two claws? The black color one. Thanks.

[@KeplerElectronics]

That is non slip mat. Vex sells some, but it’s a lot cheaper to buy rolls of it from a local hardware store. We found ours in the cabinetry section for lining drawers in the kitchen.

[@darkfyy]

The Omni wheels made you easy to push

[@noahparedes2446]

So what did you use for a grip on you claw because I’m trying to look for something that I can use for mine

[@KeplerElectronics]

We used non-slip mat. It can be purchased from vex, or purchased in rolls from your local hardware store. Check the cabinet section, as it is often marketed as a drawer liner.

[@noahparedes2446]

Kepler Electronics thanks a lot I went and purchased some and my robot is so much better

[@vapor1148]

Im making this robot

[@matthewpreis8182]

Goes to Hawaii, can’t go to benton...smh

[@calebalford1581]

Are you going to do a video of how to make the flip cube intake I see a lot of them in the China videos

[@cschleef2465]

How did you guys make the lift?

[@ericdooley3488]

Hey i think that's a good design. I think it's good to go simple and easy when you don't have time.

[@beezow7113]

OK

[@meepmeepme]

Claw can be replaced by v5 claw

[@24118E]

How is your robot now?

[@tthienhoang5979]

Wow....

[@Team323ZPhoenix]

who narrated this video?

[@muradmalik]

@Team 6210X Caden/Kaden (I don’t know how to spell it)

[@charchuuu]

Oh you were at mli

[@markluo5461]

DOes your axles bend?

[@nikaash1]

i see my bot

[@meepmeepme]

How do you structure your videos? Asking for a friend :P

[@KeplerElectronics]

I don't really have a set structure, I generally just write either from the chassis up, or in a roughly chronological order.

[@meepmeepme]

@@KeplerElectronics thats pretty neat. I regret not writing mine that way

[@meepmeepme]

@@KeplerElectronics thanks. I'm thinking of doing an explanation to accompany my reveals.

[@KeplerElectronics]

It’s something that not many people do. The flashy, heavily edited reveals are really fun to watch, but if someone wants to learn something about one of the mechanisms they have to just pause and keep rewinding. The explanation takes more time, but I think it’s a better resource for new teams.

[@leanthonydrake5135]

How do you get the funds needed to make your vex robot's

[@baaz6968]

its usually paid for by whatever school u go to if there is a club. but if there isn't a club it's all out of pocket
for me there is a 300$ club fee then the school pays for competitions we go to. for worlds it cost like 2500$ to go and we fundraised by panhandling to local businesses and i'd say it worked pretty well

[@muradmalik]

@@baaz6968 same

[@masonkelly4391]

Not your best design, but I bet you can definitely make a better one

[@KeplerElectronics]

For sure, we had some much more original and ambitious designs, but the time constraints didn't allow us to tweak them to being quite as usable as we had wanted, and we figured a simple robot that was optimized would beat a less optimized complex robot.

[@masonkelly4391]

Kepler Electronics yeah, that makes sense, how do think this robot would work, a standard base, with a dr4b attached and on that dr4b, we have a passive intake with some intake tread, to make it easier to pick up some cubes and stack them. Thanks, and if you think there would be anything wrong with it, please let me know.

[@KeplerElectronics]

@@masonkelly4391 That seems like a pretty common design. It worked really well at the Mark Leon.

[@masonkelly4391]

Kepler Electronics thanks

[@julianescobar1672]

Is that 18 by 18?

[@KeplerElectronics]

It was nearly 18” long, but probably 12” wide.

[@julianescobar1672]

@@KeplerElectronics damn it just looks so huge lol

[@baaz6968]

oh yea, about time