Motion
These long metal parts come in various lengths, have a square profile, and connect parts together to ensure a common motion (the connected parts will move together).
What is a Shaft?
This part attaches to the body of the robot and usually holds the Brain.
What is the Brain Mounting Bracket?
When your robot runs out of power, you need to recharge this.
What is the Battery?
What is a Rubber Band?
This part has teeth and is made of plastic with a small metal center into which a shaft can fit.
What is a High Strength Gear?
This part attaches to a Nut and allows us to connect other parts together.
What is a Screw?
The VEX EXP robot uses these to move various parts.
What are V5 Smart Motors
You use this to tighten a nut.
What is an Open Ended Wrench?
These circular parts have small rollers around their rim. This allows them to both apply a force perpendicular to the rotation of the part, while moving laterally (side to side).
What is an omni-directional wheel?
This part is very similar to a Plate, but is bent in 2 (parallel) places.
***Hint, its profile is shaped like a 'C'***
When you haven't programmed your robot, but you want to control it, you need to use this.
What is the Controller?
These will help you secure wires, so that they don't get caught in other parts of the robot.
What are Zip Ties?
This part has teeth and helps turn rotational motion into linear motion.
What is a Rack Gear?
This part is made of metal that has NOT been bent, and it allows for parts to be connected to the robot at various angles.
What is a Flat Gusset?
This part will help your robot detect how far away from something it is.
What is the Distance Sensor?
This tool help you tighten the screws that come in the VEX EXP robot kit.
This part is a toothed wheel that transfers motion to other parts that might not be toothed.
What is a sprocket.
This plastic part allow us to keep two other parts separated by a specific distance. It is also conveniently designed to be easily put in place.
What is a Click-on Spacer?
This component tells other electrical parts how to behave (what to do).
What is the Brain?
These thin, plastic sheets are designed to fit over metal plates and act as smooth surfaces.