This reminds me of the hugger robots in VEX IQ Rise Above last year (that was the meta...). Very nice build and design. Looking forward to seeing it play at competitions!
Coming from 1064C, how did you guys program your 6motor drive? We have been trying to find a tutorial for ages and we just can’t seam to figure it out.. do you mind helping us with that?
Are you having issues with motors spinning the wrong way? The code six-motor drive should be almost identical to a four-motor drive. The thing to look out for is that all the motors are properly reversed or not in the code.
A 1:5 gear ratio should work just fine (another 3141 team with the same design as us uses a 1:5 gear ratio on their claw) A faster claw will unfold and close on goals faster, but a decent amount of strength is also needed to grab tipped goals and such. We've debated changing our claw gearing to 2:7, though we're pretty satisfied with the current speed.
We rebuilt to a clawbot - as literal seniors - that apparently proved to be a solid design. Our other teams, liking the simple yet effective design, started building their own 'variants' of the claw (pretty much carbon copies). In response, we created those _Any Orientation_ stickers and slapped one on each copied claw. Now when we scrimmage against each other it's pure clawbot chaos.
Divide the number of teeth on the input gear by the number of teeth on the output gear. Multiply that ratio by the rpm of the input motor. The motors (600 rpm) power 36 tooth gears that turn the 60 tooth gears connected to the wheels. So *600 • (36 / 60) = 360 rpm* gives the output rpm
