Keke was my team's final competitive robot for the VRC season Turning point, my senior year of high school. This robot used a catapult to shoot two balls at once to shoot two flags at once, could pick up and score caps and place them on poles, and could scrape balls off of caps or the platform.
Pancake was my team's first competitive robot of the VRC season Turning Point, my senior year of high school. This robot used a flywheel to shoot hard plastic balls at flags and could pick up and rotate caps to score them on poles.
Gort was my team's final competitive robot for the VRC season In the Zone. This robot is different from Geoffrey in that this robot would keep the mobile goal inside of the robot and stack cones internally.
At this point, we were qualified for the State Championship. We now had 3 months of no stress to build up a robot for States, and somehow my team and I built 8 robots in this time frame and only 1 worked which was Gort. This is a recap of the 7 robots that didn't end up working and why we decided to scrap it.
I believe showcasing failure is just as important as showcasing successes. Between Geoffrey and Gort there was a significant amount of failure, but the amount I learned from this process was invaluable. Without learning how much of a mistake it was building so many robots and not spending any time tuning I wouldn't have succeeded in any future projects here.
The rest of this blog post is the definition of "try it and see".
Geoffrey was one of my team's first competitive robots for the VRC season In the Zone, my junior year of high school. This robot was designed to pick up cones and place them on mobile goals, then lift the weighted mobile goal to place it inside a higher-scoring zone.
After watching a friend play Destiny I wanted to make something inspired by that game's aesthetic.
This was a Nerf Longshot that I did minimal modifications to on the exterior functionally. I used a Dremel to cut a portion of the front off to look more streamlined.
Mavshot was one of my first successful projects that I built when I was 11. This is a Nerf Longshot body with a Nerf Maverick attached underneath.
