Video tutorials

In this robotics tutorial, we give a few notes for the teacher about adding an axle to the front of the FTC robot and attaching a plastic plate to this axle to make the robot collect balls. 

Find a plastic element. Cut it to 200mm by 140mm and attach this plastic plate to the front of our FIRST Technical Challenge Tetrix Robot.

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How to add a plastic plate to the FIRST Technical Challenge Robot build with Tetrix. The plastic plate is for collecting the balls. The plate should rotate and should be connected to the axle.

How do you synchronise the two levers to move with the same speed, but in opposite directions? 

Attach an axle to the front of the robot. Find a similar one, or modify the FTC Tetrix robot to accommodate the new axle. 

The topic of this tutorial is the purpose of a system of gears when throwing a ball.

How to construct an axle with a plastic plate connected to this axle and make this plate rotate and collect balls.

The length of the lever has a certain effect when hitting the ball. In this tutorial, I would like to discuss what it's the effect. 

There are modifications that you must do on the FTC PushBot robot. Let's discuss them

One of the very common tasks on different FIRST Technical Challenge competitions is to collect objects. In this case, these are colourful specifically shaped plastic object or in simple terms - balls.

In this tutorial we go through the VEX IQ Challenge. Most of the challenges are related with manipulating objects. The most common object used in competitions are balls. That is why we take a look at a simple mechanism that can be used for throwing a ball.

Control the hand of the FIRST Technical Challenge Push Bot robot with the GamePad bumpers.

Building a rack is a very important skill during competitions. You should try to build one, learn how to use it and have it as a tool for you next robots. But for this particular BoxRobot, we will not continue with a rack.

Using the rack depends on the experience of the team. Based on this a different number of gear wheels and racks would be used.

Build a rack and try to lift the robot with this rack. 

The next step of lifting a robot to a mission model is to try to use a rack.

Tips and common mistakes when connecting two beams together.

What is allowed and what is not when building without instructions.

Try to add a touch sensor to the robot on your own.

By using the GamePad to control the arm with could lift it and return it back. The main problem with controlling the arm is that if you just use the motors you would hit the robot, bend the axles and breaks the gear wheels. We would use the distance sensor to make the arm move without hitting the robot.

Why we change the robots all the time and what to observe in each new robot.

Our next robot is called CastorBot, because of the castor ball.

A special fourth case for a turning with robots with two wheels.