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Re: Vex contest from Exploding Bacon

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Originally Posted by Tytus Gerrish
say for instance i had a robot that did not touch the ground therefore avoiding the white lines completely and not touching them Is this going to be one on those "magical plane" kind of things or can i get realy creative. also...

would it be acceptable to dammage the objects to be retrived? say for instance. Harpooning them and realing them in.

and what constitutes "mostly vex" i could say that a superlight frame and drivetrain that was waterCut from CF witch is less than 50% of the overall robot weight is a robot that is "mostly vex"
We had a lengthly discussion about the flying through the air version and I wrote a FAQ that it fit the rules but not the spirit but would love to see it thus it was ok.

Mostly VEX thing bothered me, as I worked with the kids on the rules they did not want to nail it down more than that. I tried to do it with weight etc. but they didn;t want to. I think in future we may have a rule like FRC that has only VEX motors and MCU but few other rules. This was suppose to be for fun and learning.

Mine bot is built and it is almost totally out of VEX parts, I do have one piece part of the object grabber that is non-VEX. I used the VEX encoders even though I had non-VEX encoders on it before. I might put some non-VEX sensors like IR sensor.

WE just wanted a fun thing all of us VEX owners could do. This is a challenging contest and not that easy to pick them all up in the two minutes especially staying with the hard path.

Nothing in rules about damaging the objects. I know my first robot version would put dents in the empty can. So go ahead and destroy the objects.
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