Mechanical
Structure Designs
Design Process
Programming
The Game
100
The two main components of the robot
What are the chassis and superstructure?
100
A very basic chassis design
What is a square chassis?
100
The first steps in the design process
What are define and identify?
100
A coding platform that uses both a graphic interface and a text editor
What is VEX C++?
100
The name of this year's challenge
What is Change Up?
200
The plates that are bent up on the sides and are used in almost every part of the robot because of their strength
What is a c-channel?
200
The type of chassis shown in the picture:
What is an H-chassis?
200
The third step of the design process that is based on research
What is brainstorming?
200
A sequence of steps that are repeated until a condition is fulfilled
What is a while loop?
200
The colors of the alliances
What are red and blue?
300
This piece is used to connect 2 pieces of metal at an angle
What is a gusset?
300
The lift that moves in a straight line, usually up and down
What is a "linear lift"?
300
A notebook used to document work on a project in chronological order, we use it to track the developments/advancement of our robot and team
What is an engineering notebook?
300
A type of statement that tells a program to preform a task based on certain conditions
What is and if-then-else statement?
300
The length of autonomous and driver control
What is 15 seconds autonomus and 1 minute 45 seconds driver control?
400
This part has a piece of plastic inside of it that prevents it from moving when tightened
What is a lock nut?
400
A non linear lift that is very unbalanced
What is a 4, 6, or 8 bar lift?
400
The initial building of the design
What is prototyping?
400
Using two joysticks on a controller to control each side the chassis vs using one joystick on a controller to move the chassis forwards, backwards and sideways and using the other joystick to turn
What is the difference between tank drive and arcade drive?
400
Something that you do to your opponent to gather information
What is scouting?
500
A type of gear ratio for a powerful strong mechanism that has the smaller gear as the driving gear and the bigger gear as the driven gear
What is a torque ratio?
500
The chassis type that has the ability to "crab walk", or move sideways without turning
What is a holonomic chassis?
500
The number of steps in the engineering design process
What is 8?
500
The exception to the semi-colon syntax rule in VEX C++
What is a loop, function, and main program?
500
The exact diameter of the ball field element in change up
What is 6.3 inches?