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cmmarkes
12-10-2004, 21:56
Hey,
I'm Carrie Markesino I'm a mentor on team 857. A part of our team is developing a class for incoming freshman, to prepare them for the season. We wanted to use the Robovation kit because it is more like the FIRST kit. I was wondering if anyone knows how I can buy a new robovation kit.
Thanks!
~Carrie

ZACH P.
12-10-2004, 22:05
Here ya go. A bit too pricey for my tastes though.

http://innovationfirst.com/FIRSTRobotics/edu-kits.htm

Arefin Bari
12-10-2004, 22:35
Hey,
I'm Carrie Markesino I'm a mentor on team 857. A part of our team is developing a class for incoming freshman, to prepare them for the season. We wanted to use the Robovation kit because it is more like the FIRST kit. I was wondering if anyone knows how I can buy a new robovation kit.
Thanks!
~Carrie

that is great that you want to start your freshmans off with some great kits. but here are some suggestion which might help you a bit financially, these kits are cheaper than a robovation kit and works for newbies... (i was a newbie at one point of time.) check out parallax (http://www.parallax.com/), also soldering robot kits (http://www.hobbyengineering.com/SectionRC.html) might help your newbies to learn. it is always good to start from the beginning and go into hard stuff. it might be just me that i like to learn from the beginning and then get into something more complex. there was a time when i was playing with this robot soldering kits... previously i have done the Hexcrawler project (found at Parallax), the building part of it is easy... but autonomous programming makes you think. these were just suggestions... good luck... :)

ahecht
16-10-2004, 11:52
If you have the old EduRobotics kit, you can buy just the new controller for $250, or contact IFI to see if they would be willing to let you trade in your old controller for a discount on the new one.

Elgin Clock
24-01-2005, 17:24
http://www.ifirobotics.com/

Innovation FIRST has a new site ^ and that's where you get the CMU Cam2
<linky on the left navigation bar>