VEX Turning Point | Team 240P Late Season Reveal: "High Quality" 

lol they tried to make v5 with v4, the 8 motor drive xD

Wtf

@@reillywalsh3581 alright now listen here, everyone sees, it's a natural human phenomenon, and you have no right to judge, everyone pees, and this is a safe space not right for people like you, you should apologize to him

@@Flame6332 lmao

do you guys still have 2BC?

@@user-ge1pw5cb8c yes sir

After firing a ball the flywheel RPM naturally drops as energy has been transferred to the ball. We use this to quickly fire a second ball at a lower RPM which results in a lower height for the second shot. If your flywheel is burning out that's likely a problem with too much friction, or an overly fast ratio (possibly a bit of both). We run our flywheel at around 2200 RPM with 2 motors. If your shots aren't firing far enough even with a high RPM you need to work on tuning your hood.

Yes, we (240P allianced with OHS 2900A) won finals match 15 points to 11 :)

@@Goldfish21049 Awesome, well done. Nice to see NZ robotic still being awesome. We've got UK nationals next week with our 3 teams in it, not quite ready...

@Rahul Bhati Paul Thompson, it was almost over 20 years ago that I was a student there, left in 96. Is Mr Bryan a DT teacher? The name rings a bell. As a teacher I started the Roarbotix team at MAGS in 2007 before I left for the UK a few years later.

What's the point of an indexer? Asking for a friend...

@@benrichard6578 Indexers are basically used to move a ball into contact with the flywheel. If the indexer was chained to the rest of the intake, it would be easy to accidently shoot balls while trying to intake other balls.

@@bucketfullabiscuits7865 it kinda sucks cus you have to waist a motor and if yo have v5 thats a big oof

It allows compression to be where it needs to be, even if one baller is somehow more hard than another. Big use in NbN, but I can see why you would use it here

To be honest, we're not quite sure how it works. However, it's insanely reliable and better than any cap flipper we've built this season.

its's basically an indexer that pulls back then the cap flipper hits a bar on a pivot. This pulls on a string connected to a piece of plastic. This is so they don't shoot accidentally.

1 layer of black crepe rubber bands on 4" wheels. We keep lots of spare rubber bands on the wheels on the side. They don't need to be replaced too often.

No, they do it via a mechanical brake :)

PID loop

Works pretty well, we don't have shots of it because we don't have a full field

​@@williamacourt405​ r u able to shoot top flag from the back wall? (even though kinda unnecessary)

@@bryanlevine8033 not from right at the very back, but we could shoot from about halfway between the back of the platforms and the back wall

@@williamacourt405 oh ok. overall just a very strong bot, great work. cant wait to see what ya'll will bring to worlds.

They just lucked out on the design. They got it first try

i dont approve of the change #catagang

@@8pxl_ lol

No they went from good to better?

Judges won't look at videos ever. Just focus on having a good notebook. Reveal videos are a lot of fun to make, and are a great way to get people to know your team number. Apart from that the reveals won't help you at all.

Videos are for clout purposes only. Just be better than everyone lese and ur fine

We do use code to assist the slowdown, however, most of it happens simply from the energy transferring from the flywheel to the first ball.

No as explained earlier in the comments, this is done via a mechanical brake

@@sillysock45 I'm pretty new to robotics, could you explain how the mechanical brake works?

Yes

Not too great, this was one of the problems we had with this robot. The weight distribution of the robot made parking pretty bad (and the 3.25" wheels certainly didn't help). We could park, but it took far longer than it really should have.

It doesnt

Yes

New Zealand, one of my favorite states.

Zach 929U yeah I think I’ve been there before

@@Zach929U doesn't exist

Keijay Huang ngl they just made flywheels a bit more relevant

Catagang: Shoot once, miss twice. #flywheelgang

More like bruh momentum

good to better, its almost like it was a good idea or something to improve