VEX IQ snap on top field boarder pieces?

[allengregoryiv]

Product suggestion.

Can you make field boarder pieces that snap on top of field instead of having to snap to the side of a tile?

We want to use VEX IQ for our summer camp and part of the old curriculum used re-configurable walls on the field for mazes and other tasks.

[Foster]

I second that suggestion!

I used some of that white poster stuff that has foam in a paper sandwich. I cut it into strips. I used a small phillips screwdriver to dig a hole for wooden dowels to go into the foam. (I'd started with the 1-2 unit connectors, but the 2 unit wasn't really long enough to keep it from flopping around.

[Art Dutra IV]

Hi Allen/Foster,

Thanks for the great idea! We'll be sure to add this to our list of considerations for future new products.

If you're looking for a solution in the interim period, you can create maze walls now using a combination of existing VEX IQ beams and connectors. The wall can then be made smooth by attaching thin plastic sheet or paper cardstock with the new Thin Sheet Attachment Pins. A sample photo of this is attached to this post.

Please excuse the crudity of this model. I didn't have time to build it to scale or paint it.

Regards,
- Art

[goeckerd]

I would like this part also. Last year I used wood 1x4's and put a little nail in the bottom to pin it into a tile hole to keep it from moving. The walls would not stand on their own but if I screwed them into a perpendicular board they would stay secured when a bot ran into them.

[calvc01]

The new version of the Highrise cubes can pin to a tile so ideal for making mazes etc.

[dfournier]

My solution for making a maze.
I cut an 1/2 inch piece of plywood into strips the same height as the field walls. I drilled holes at each end ( I am going to turn the holes in to slots to make it easier to place them on the field. I cut them to several different lengths. I used offset corner connectors and a connector pin to connect boards to field. They stand up just fine to robots hitting them.

I would like to see a piece made specifically to connect boards to the field as I used up all my offset corner connectors to build a maze. I would also like a way to angle the board, right now they all need to be at 90 degree angles.

[Rick TYler]

I've made mazes out of 2x4 blocks and IQ field perimeter pieces mounted upside down. Neither is perfect, but they work.