[syraweb]

Our team received the Vex Programming Kit by UPS today from Radio Shack, and have not yet gone beyond installing it. We are excited about being able to go beyond remote control, and start coding autonomous robots using the new sensors that are pending release.

The licensing agreement seems to be very restrictive - the software needs to be registered and activated, and is keyed to the configuration of the PC. Shades of Windows XP - it states that major system reconfigurations (like the network card) will disable the installation. We swap NICs on our laptop for wired ethernet vs. WIFI access, so this will be a pain for us.

There is a complicated procedure involving transferring the license to another computer to get around this, or dealing with intelitek support (quoted at up to several days). Could this be the licensing issue that delayed release of the product? I expect that this will decrease the exposure of each individual team member to the programming environment as well, at $100 per seat, not per team or per kit.