High Stakes Robot 2

2024

This is High Stakes Robot 2, the second competition robot I built for the VEX V5 High Stakes season under team 38535C. It runs an omni wheel drive base with a chain driven arm that lifts over the chassis, and pneumatics for the clamping. At the back of the chassis it carries a two piston top down mobile goal clamp that supported multiple sides for clamping. The wall stake arm is a short armed arm that held the ring by friction fit, driven by a 5.5W motor rather than a piston, and I worked out the 360 degree geometry in Desmos so it could go all the way around, which also let me flip mobile goals with it. This robot took the VEX Robotics Competition tournament champions award for the 2024 to 2025 season.

High Stakes Robot 2 showing the drive base, side gears, and chain driven arm Top down view of the robot with the arm, gears, and V5 brain during a build session The robot set up in the workshop next to the VEX tournament champions award and its air tank Close view of the cylinders and air tank mounted on the robot