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tacman1123 05-06-2006 10:21

Building Vex Robots: Books or articles?
 
Are there any books or detailed articles about building robots with the Vex kit? I have a library of Mindstorm books, and enjoy seeing how experts put stuff together (and do some truly amazing things). But other than the Squarebot, I haven't see anything detailed for assembling a Vex robot. While there are several pictures and descriptions on the web, they don't have step by step instructions, which I find very valuable for learning "best practices".

Thx,

Tac

John Gutmann 05-06-2006 22:36

Re: Building Vex Robots: Books or articles?
 
VEX is all about learning, if you own your own kit at your disposal, then jst build things. Plan it out and actually engineer your robot. This shoudl go here because this will help the CG and this will help it this way. I made the frame like this because.......You know that kind of thing.

Pick a task you want to see a robot do and build a robot to do it!!! Just have fun.

gblake 12-06-2006 23:46

Re: Building Vex Robots: Books or articles?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by sparksandtabs
VEX is all about learning, if you own your own kit at your disposal, then jst build things. Plan it out and actually engineer your robot. This shoudl go here because this will help the CG and this will help it this way. I made the frame like this because.......You know that kind of thing.

Pick a task you want to see a robot do and build a robot to do it!!! Just have fun.

There are lots of things that can be learned with a Vex kit. Sometimes what a person wants to learn is not how to build a mechanism. Sometimes applying mechanical design templates refined by others is the best way to stand on the shoulders of giants and accelerate progress in another field or in extending the boundaries of the mechanical design field...

If anyone out there has begun collecting Vex mechanical design patterns into an album, I, like tacman1123, am one of the people who would like to study the designs.

Blake (hopeful) Ross


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