Manually Moving Disks
| Quantity | Materials Needed |
|---|---|
| 1 |
VEX V5 Workcell |
| 1 | |
| 1 |
Engineering Notebook |
| 1 |
Device to run VEXcode V5 |
| 1 |
Micro-USB cable |
| 3 |
Colored Disks (1x red, 1x blue, 1x green) |
In this section, you will be introduced to the Electromagnet tool with VEX V5 Workcell. You will explore how to create a project where the arm mounted on the V5 Workcell uses the Electromagnet tool to pick up and drop off colored disks in a specific location.
First, you will display the (x, y, z) coordinate locations on the V5 Brain’s screen to find the locations that the arm mounted on the V5 Workcell will need to move to in order to pick up and drop off disks. You will then use these locations to explore how to trigger behaviors of the arm mounted on the V5 Workcell by building a project that uses a User Interface (UI) on the V5 Brain.
The UI on the V5 Brain will display four colored boxes (white, red, green, and blue). Each color corresponds to a particular movement of the arm mounted on the V5 Workcell. The white box will move the arm mounted on the V5 Workcell to the disk pick up location and each of the colored boxes will move the arm mounted on the V5 Workcell to that colored disks drop off location.
You will complete the activity by successfully moving all three colored disks (red, green, and blue) to their accompanying drop off location using the UI on the V5 Brain’s screen.
You will begin by locating coordinates.