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Vex Pics from FIRST/LEGO/Vex Robotics Competition
antispam_ben writes "Last week's Slashdot article linked to CNN's coverage of the LEGO League robotics competition. LEGO League was only part of the event. I gave a short description and links to the original FIRST Robotics, LEGO League, and new Vex Robotics competitions in this comment. New from the local robotics mailing list is this page of pictures from the Vex competition."
Wow, you're completely wrong. Vex is a competition of the Non-profit organization FIRST (http://www.usfirst.org/). They're not aiming to "sell" to any market, only appeal to schools that don't have the money, time, or will to compete in FIRST Robotics. The robot that my team built roughly had $15,000 put into it, including parts and machining. That's expensive, unlike Vex were robotics are generally under $300. Radioshack sponsors FIRST to give them the oppertunity to do this. Buying the same parts from Radioshack for anything other than Vex might be twice as expensive. Geez, get your facts straight.
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Actually, this depends on your cleverness and your design goals. There is always limits. My point is that Vex doesn't even give you limits of autonomy, it is simply an R/C system. The LEGO set at least allows the user to explore programming and system design. Even if you are programming an FPGA, there are limits, so there are no robotics kits that are going to allow you to choose your version of artificial intelligence, everything is limited. My point is that Vex provides less for the money than other available kits, and this article is mostly, if not all, about advertisement.
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