Tearing a Robot Down to Start Designing a New One

This week in the STEM program as the semester comes to an end so does my robot that I built this whole semester. I had to tear the robot apart that I worked so hard on this semester today and it was sad it hurt. It's funny how I worked hard building this robot this whole semester but I managed to pull it all apart in an hour. The reason for me having to start from scratch with a new design for a robot is because the next VEX robotics competition has totally changed. It's no longer shooting balls into goals but its picking up huge jacks and throwing them over a wall. My robot with the current design was not going to be able to perform the task and it was way too small. Now I will start brainstorming a design for this next competition to work on the next semester. The competition looks like a lot of fun and it's going to be a challenge to build this robot but I'll keep you guys updated. Here are some pictures of before and after of the robot tear down. You can see that yellow jack and the size of it in the picture. This next game will also have an orange square beanbag that you can toss over the wall which you can see a part of it next to Josh.