Robot: Avalanche
Avalanche is an awesome season starter robot that with some practice and strategy, can be a contender win your local competition.
Wall Stakes (fish mech)
This wall stake mechanism will take your robot to the next level when you can score wall stakes in half a second, even under defense. But don't take my work for it, click the button below for photos and try it!
How to Build an Intake (Part 1)
These are the intake secrets you need to know to build an awesome intake! I've seen hundreds of intakes and built dozens, and I've summarized it here. Click the button below to check it out!
How to Pick up a Mobile Goal
Picking up the mobile goals is hard, but I want to show you some tips to make it easy! I've seen lots of different designs, and built several as well, and I want to show you what I've learned so you don't have to learn it the hard way.
Coding a 6 Motor Drive
VEX doesn't have an integrated 6-motor drive option. So I've made a tutorial (step-by-step) that explains how it works and how to code it yourself.
Coding a 6 Motor Drive in Autonomous
After you have a 6 motor drive coded for driver control, how do you do it for autonomous? That's exactly what I explain in this video, so you can have working autonomous code for your 6 motor drivetrain in just a few minutes.
How to get Rings to Land on the Mobile Goal
Getting the rings to land on the mobile goal can be hard. But there are a few things that, if you know them, make it way easier. See, most robots have the same two or three different things going on, and I show you here what those are, and how to fix them.
How to Build an Intake (Part 2)
Intakes are notoriously one of the hardest parts of a robot to build well, and I show you in this video some more tips on how to build an intake specifically for VEX High Stakes, so you can pick up rings as soon as your intake touches them.
Using VEX Pneumatics 101
Pneumatics can be really confusing. There are tons of tubes, connectors, wires, gauges, and more. And in this video I'm going to show you how it all works so you can have a working pneumatics system on your robot in under 15 minutes.
5 Tips Every Team should know about Drivetrains
The drivetrain is the most important part of your robot. Without a good drivetrain, your robot won't perform well. It's unfortunate how common it is to see drivetrains that don't work. So I want to show you how you can make a world-class drivetrain, and some tips that the top teams use to make their drivetrains the best of the best.
The New (and better) way to Grab a Mobile Goal
Building a mobile goal clamp that doesn't let go when you don't want it to, is easy to build and tune, and works in any goal orientation is hard to do. Unless you know the secret to building it right. Click the button below to learn how it works.
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