My guess is… Many people have loads of old VEX brains, motors and stuff they don’t know what to do with after they bought the new V5 system. To compound the problem, no-one else wants it either, unless you also want to give them the structure parts as well – […]
VEX-IQ
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VEX has recently released beta versions of software that they want to use to replace RobotC, VEX Coding Studio, Modkit and all the others. The new suites are all called: VEXcode, but there will be different versions of VEXcode for IQ and EDR V5, also each will have a Blocks […]
New project – Making a VEX brother for WALL-E We’re doing obstacle avoiding robots in class now, so I made a tank tread base. I soon saw it looked like this little robot’s wheels. Then I got an idea, the normal obstacle avoiding robots are so boring, let’s give this […]
I looked around on YouTube for easy solutions to my lift problem: If I wasn’t careful, the lift would go past it’s usable range and break something like a linkage or a gear would pop out. Clearly I needed to add some limit switches to turn off the motor once […]
These kids only started with robotics three months ago and they have only one class per week: I haven’t counted exactly, but it amounts to about 15 hours of training. The competition was at the World Trade Center in Taipei. Have a look, they did pretty well, I’m so proud […]
I’ve been asked by quite a few people for a tutorial on how to make the 4 bar double reverse robot (Or rather – the Reverse- Double Four Bar). Seeing that I built it by trial and error, I didn’t take pictures at the time, but I took it apart […]
After trying to auto stack with the 4BDR design, we decided that it was too difficult to get the bonus hubs with that robot. (It was a very nice design though). I saw a YouTube video of another auto- stacker, which led to this design. No fancy four bar lift, […]
Changed the wheels on the latest prototype in order to improve driving precision. And there it goes!
The previous two motor model worked, but wasn’t very stable. It was very difficult to control and it flexed a lot. Not really something I’d recommend going to a competition with. The main problem isn’t making the mechanism work, it is making it work with the parts available in the […]