Vex Tower Takeover Wallbot Reveal and Custom Linear Slides

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  • čas přidán 25. 10. 2019
  • So, in the seven-ish hours before leaving for a Vex tournament, we decided to build a wallbot out of an experimental scissor-lift robot. We originally used Vex slides, but the leverage on them ended up causing the robot to split in half, so we had to come up with another solution. We could have used inside slides on both stages, but we did not have enough slides to build it that way. We tried looping zipties around the slides, but that only worked for a couple of the slides, and they tended to slip off of the slides and cease to help.
    So we decided to go with another solution. Our solution was something we've been doing for quite some time, and I think it turned out rather well.
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Komentáře • 62

  • @Ad_Hominem
    @Ad_Hominem Před 4 lety +76

    "it seemed to strike fear into the hearts of the competitors."
    Other Competitors: dear god its T-posing

  • @calvinlittle7
    @calvinlittle7 Před 4 lety +125

    That's a T-pose in VEX robot form

  • @samerqahtan3465
    @samerqahtan3465 Před 4 lety +82

    F in the chat for all the teams who are trying to score points

  • @micahscheaffer7182
    @micahscheaffer7182 Před 4 lety +47

    I feel honored that I got compete with and against you in a tournament. (I'm from 7686B)

    • @KeplerElectronics
      @KeplerElectronics  Před 4 lety +4

      Thanks! It was really fun talking with everyone at that tournament, it was neat seeing all the different designs from your guys’ region

  • @slas_wrld8134
    @slas_wrld8134 Před 4 lety +23

    this is awesome. rip teams that go against you guys

  • @precast5613
    @precast5613 Před 4 lety +8

    Was nice meeting you at the comp, hope to see you make it back for the next one

    • @KeplerElectronics
      @KeplerElectronics  Před 4 lety +2

      It was super fun talking with everyone there, I hope we can make it back for another tournament!

  • @Roaming-Rob
    @Roaming-Rob Před 4 lety

    I made a pull apart wallbot back in gateway. Same approach you took here except with the older linear slides. It actually worked really well.

  • @meepmeepme
    @meepmeepme Před 4 lety +12

    I always enjoy watching your videos, they're very informative and a great resource for beginning teams.

    • @KeplerElectronics
      @KeplerElectronics  Před 4 lety +1

      Hey, thanks! I try to make them as easy to follow as I can. Coming into Vex I really had to teach myself, so I try to make my content easy to understand and help those who don’t have a mentor grow into great builders and competitors.

    • @charchuuu
      @charchuuu Před 4 lety

      Woah we both are studying kepler

    • @meepmeepme
      @meepmeepme Před 4 lety

      @@charchuuu that's so crazy omg

    • @charchuuu
      @charchuuu Před 4 lety

      Yea

    • @turretlez
      @turretlez Před 4 lety

      u seem familiar😐

  • @kadencassidy3134
    @kadencassidy3134 Před 4 lety +4

    When you drive forward the way you end up moving forward is because both sides end up fighting against each other moving all the force foward, so there is nothing you can do about that

  • @reactiongamerguy9537
    @reactiongamerguy9537 Před 4 lety

    How did the two mothers that control how long the claws go didn't fall off?

  • @samsara2194
    @samsara2194 Před 4 lety

    *remember how wallbots are legal for tower takeover?*
    Anyway, we had to build a super simple clawbot in a week. We didn't get time to even program autonomous. We pulled through in a few matches with some stackers. We put cubes in the towers, and they stacked. Other clawbots with us didn't work well. But it was very fun!

  • @aidanpatterson5345
    @aidanpatterson5345 Před 4 lety

    Why did you guys change your team number?

  • @softsound1890
    @softsound1890 Před 4 lety +1

    I am extremely interested in buying a vex kit, what do you recommend?

    • @KeplerElectronics
      @KeplerElectronics  Před 4 lety

      Vex is relatively expensive, and it really depends on what you want... I would say that you should just buy the barebones V5 kit, and some structural components. I would purchase screws from another source, but standoffs from Vex are great. Purchase a number of axles and spacers, and that’s basically it.

  • @fluffykittn
    @fluffykittn Před 4 lety +2

    I'm not entirely sure, but I do FRC rather than vex and all of these vex robots seem a lot smaller and less complex.

    • @KeplerElectronics
      @KeplerElectronics  Před 4 lety +2

      Vex is a lot more limited. You are limited to an 18” by 18” by 18” cube, and you have to use only approved materials (usually made by Vex, but not always). It has a few nice things, they are smaller, so most teams can afford to and have space for a field, and it levels the playing field a bit more, you don’t get quite the variance in robot cost like FRC.

  • @shadowtigma5726
    @shadowtigma5726 Před rokem

    3 years early

  • @mks6869
    @mks6869 Před 4 lety +1

    Wallbot!!!!!!

  • @---im4zm
    @---im4zm Před 4 lety +2

    if i see a single wall bot at a competition i will break it

  • @sammy13nation94
    @sammy13nation94 Před 4 lety +3

    Nice but it looks like a crab wich makes it awsome

  • @exaultedflair2817
    @exaultedflair2817 Před 4 lety +2

    When u have one Kit and a crap team In a state where like nobody competes....

  • @noahboursier
    @noahboursier Před 4 lety +2

    Not sure if you saw the NorCal RI3D, we made the stupidest wallbot possible. I'd say the best approach to this is make the massive deploy scissor as we did that is immovable once deployed because of its weight and length, but don't use an omnidirectional drive to deploy it. Our scissor could've been deployed by a conventional robot using a pin release passively linked to another system, and with a tether you get the best of both worlds so to speak, both a wall and a robot that can actively push.

    • @kasanei401
      @kasanei401 Před 4 lety

      ^^

    • @kunalshah7539
      @kunalshah7539 Před 4 lety +1

      If you wanna see the bot this guy ^^^ is talking abt here czcams.com/video/Rznndditly0/video.html

    • @jaiveersingh4981
      @jaiveersingh4981 Před 4 lety

      heyy our wallbot wasn't the *stupidest* one possible, I'm sure we coulda made it even dumber - I mean, cooler

    • @NuggetDaChicken
      @NuggetDaChicken Před 4 lety

      @@jaiveersingh4981 could u guys post a video of ur robot during a match or passing inspection pls? Some ppl on our team don't wanna believe ur bot is legal xD

    • @kunalshah7539
      @kunalshah7539 Před 4 lety

      @@NuggetDaChicken that bot got dismantled because it was just a fun project made by a bunch of seniors who honestly know what they are doing and why do you think it wouldn't pass inspection?

  • @aidanpatterson5345
    @aidanpatterson5345 Před 4 lety

    For the linear slides you guys could have used both inside trucks and screw them in together

    • @KeplerElectronics
      @KeplerElectronics  Před 4 lety

      This was our first thought, before realizing we didn’t have enough inside trucks and we had to improvise.

    • @aidanpatterson5345
      @aidanpatterson5345 Před 4 lety

      Kepler Electronics ok, that would be a bit of an issue hehe. Good luck with your new robot!

  • @Chrisontt
    @Chrisontt Před 4 lety +1

    It's good to stop tray robots

  • @braydentaylor6516
    @braydentaylor6516 Před 4 lety +1

    Aren't you only allowed to come out 36"? Very cool bot btw!

    • @KeplerElectronics
      @KeplerElectronics  Před 4 lety +2

      For the past few years, yes, but this year, they decided to allow teams to build as wide as they want.

    • @braydentaylor6516
      @braydentaylor6516 Před 4 lety +1

      @@KeplerElectronics That is so broken I love it lmao... Can't wait to see that one robot that manages to push all robots to one corner and not allow any scoring what so ever

  • @DreadNauts
    @DreadNauts Před rokem

    I think the reason why it kept driving onto opposing teams is weight

  • @agliacci
    @agliacci Před 4 lety

    why did you not just put the scissor on the drive

    • @KeplerElectronics
      @KeplerElectronics  Před 4 lety

      Two reasons. The scissor wings were a bit of an afterthought, and also, it would make the robot even harder to drive if each side of drive was that far out. Not to mention that the scissor would have a lot of sag between the sides of drive...

    • @agliacci
      @agliacci Před 4 lety +1

      @@KeplerElectronics it would have less sag then 3 points of contact standoffs lmao. Also u don't have to drive after u extend lmao

  • @Zach929U
    @Zach929U Před 4 lety +3

    Hmm.

  • @bennyride
    @bennyride Před 4 lety +1

    I thought you were datto a destiny 2 youtuber

  • @Sammyhuman
    @Sammyhuman Před 4 lety

    Isnt raming illegal? I seem to remember something about that

    • @8pxl_
      @8pxl_ Před 4 lety

      NetherTwins bruh

    • @rindamico9446
      @rindamico9446 Před 4 lety

      Nope. You can get DQed if you're not careful, but you can bump the other robots around

    • @Sammyhuman
      @Sammyhuman Před 4 lety

      @@rindamico9446 oh okay

  • @kunalshah7539
    @kunalshah7539 Před 4 lety

    It was relevant to this video as it is a more refined proof of concept so I thought I would just post it for anyone intrested: czcams.com/video/Rznndditly0/video.html

  • @TheRainHarvester
    @TheRainHarvester Před 4 lety +1

    Nice! Checkout my 30' robot hand. I used Arduino.

  • @GreenedBeens
    @GreenedBeens Před 2 lety

    Welp this video doesn’t help anymore (wall bots aren’t allowed)

  • @spencerperley2012
    @spencerperley2012 Před 4 lety +3

    vex bad do FTC

  • @nickr.4120
    @nickr.4120 Před 4 lety +1

    Honestly, these should be banned. It ruins the game.

  • @baaz6968
    @baaz6968 Před 4 lety +4

    Wait you guys changed team numbers?