pic: "Team 63" Rah-Cha-Cha Ruckus Vertigo Teaser

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

Kinda sorta Rage 2002?

Rage was definitely an influence, but 330's single jointed arms are what I'd probably cite, combined with 2 or 3 variations of the "sniffer" design from FIRST Vex Challenge. Operating a double jointed arm as well as a chassis from one gamepad would be too difficult for me, and the added flexibility never seemed to help me back for Hangin-A-Round (the arm was useful for distance though, which I don't need here). From there, Team Overdrive's 2007 robot and PWNAGE's 2007 robot both had ring sorting mechanisms (and are also the only FTC robots I remember), so I was partly inspired by them. Throw in a bit of tribute to my very first robot and there you have it.

I'd be willing to help build placebo bots. I had the speed record for kitbot building back when I demoed with 1714 :3

(learned this last ruckus where my arm was built so strong, kids who decided to just use the bots when we were all away doing our respective volunteer jobs, they successfully bent a 6" shaft so much that I had to disassemble half the arm just to get it out of the bot.)

Been there, done that. The aforementioned first robot ever built had so much torque in the arm (2 motors driven down to a 1:35 reduction) that shafts would twist into spirals if something went wrong; we had to case harden the shafts.

As for parts I'll need... lots of shafts, a handful of gears, 4+ motors, some vex 5x15 sheet, tank treads, and some chassis rails / c-channel for good measure. And PWM cables. I think that should be it.