pic: N.E. FIRST Conference Vex Demo

[artdutra04]

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[Ian Curtis]

Now I wish I'd made the trip to go to that although it is a quite a drive. Also I'd like to drop to my knees and stare at your godly robot. It's really that awesome. Seriously.

[KathieK]

There was always a crowd around the Vex robot so I only got to see it in action a little bit, but it looked really cool. I'm looking forward to seeing it again at the conventions and on Saturday at Bash. :)

[Conor Ryan]

now thats a high quality VEX field, how did you make it? I like the vision tetra's too.

And yes your robot is awesome.

[Alex Cormier]

sweet bot! you should come on over to Rochester, NY for the off season comp Rah Cha Cha and bring it along. it would be amazing. nice job.

[artdutra04]

now thats a high quality VEX field, how did you make it? I like the vision tetra's too.

And yes your robot is awesome.

Thanks! http://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/images/smilies/9.gif Eventually, I plan on getting the Vex Ultrasonic Sensor, to try to see if it will work off the vision tetra panels. If it does, I may make an autonomous mode in which is finds the tetra and then caps it. But that is a long way off, as the Programming Module still isn't available in any of my local RadioShack stores. http://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/images/smilies/34.gif

The goals are made of 1/2" EMT pipe, the tetras are of 1/2" CPVC pipe, and the auto loading platforms are of 1/2" x 1/2" wood. I'd like to thank my father for these, as he built a lot of the playing field components while I built my Vex robot. http://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/images/smilies/2.gif The Vex robot will stack a maximum of eight tetras on the center goal and will easily stack all twelve that I have on the side goals. Here is a picture of a twelve tetra high stack at the SNE conference: (Steve Cremer is the person in the background)

http://img351.imageshack.us/img351/6295/vexrobottwelvestack0wf.jpg

Mapquest says that Rochester is about six hours from my home in Connecticut. If I did go, that would be a long trip. But, I don't have anything on October 29th, so I might go. Maybe.

EDIT: Okay everyone, you convinced me! At this point, I am about 95 percent sure that I will be able to attend the Ruckus! http://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/images/smilies/48.gif

[Ryan Foley]

Amazing job. Honestly, at first I didnt realize it was the Vex robot, until after reading the caption. Silly me.

[phrontist]

wow, it's so lifelike, it almost looks photoshopped! :cool:

[CJO]

Really, really nice.

[artdutra04]

I almost forgot to post this! I have uploaded more pictures of my Vex robot to my teams website. Here is the URL:

http://www.team228.org/index/promotefirst/05/sne-demo.htm

Here are a preview of some of the pictures:
http://www.team228.org/images/2005/sne/thumbs/sne03.jpg (http://www.team228.org/index/promotefirst/05/sne-demo.htm)
http://www.team228.org/images/2005/sne/thumbs/sne05.jpg (http://www.team228.org/index/promotefirst/05/sne-demo.htm)