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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."
It was like trying to read a Bhutanese eye test chart.
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.
Bran muffins and whiskey.
And in reality, there's not enough CPU power to do very much at all.
The only logic you can really do with either is limited to very few cases.
The only way you could really get anything done is by providing a 802-11b network link real-time and having a general purpose computer do the heavy processing for what I'd consider a "moving I/O device".
FIRST things first, I am a student in FIRST robotics. Any comments that Radio Shack is attempting to make money off of FIRST is blatently wrong. FIRST is sponsored by Radio shack (as mentioned before) and even has its own award at the competition, the Radio Shack Innovation in Control Award, which my team won in Phoenix. If anybody honestly thinks that Radion Shack is in FIRST for any other reason than to spread the mission of FIRST (as shown on usfirst.org), they are wrong.
Please do not comment on something that you know nothing about.