What do IFI interns do in their spare time?
This summer (among other things), they build a robot 100% VEX Robotics Competition legal to play Rebound Rumble.
Big congratulations to IFI 2012 interns Josh Wade, Chuck Glick, Aren Hill, James Tonthat, Charles Wensel, & Alex Zettler on surviving our first “summer of innovation.”
If you could fit a standard FRC battery and control system on there, I think it would have been the coolest robot this year. Mind those bumper rules though!
Cool. Would be neat to see a FRC/VEX hybrid competition (offseason maybe?) Where robots that would meet VEX robot rules play an FRC game. (Vice versa wouldn’t work quite as well, methinks.)
The other way around (FRC legal robots play VEX) could lead to some stationary platform robots with arms and limbs reaching out and grabbing pieces, without the robot itself moving. There would also be some small frame robots tht could move around a bit. The VEX rule of usually infinite expansion would hopefully make robots very interesting.
Swerves aren’t a problem, If anything to help you recover faster. John should give you tumbleweed I recall your rookies saying that swerve drive this year was super neat and they would LOVE to build another one! Cough 2013 Cough.
Hi. Our team watched this video last year and we want to use a similar design because our team does not want to spend money on pneumatics. Could anyone explain how the throwing mechanism works.