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Re: Well, I went out and bought a Kit.
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Originally Posted by tacman1123
My biggest complaint, having spent several hours with the hardware now, is that unlike the Mindstorm kit, which you can try new things very quickly, it's really somewhat slow to just "try this" or "try that". You point out the gear size problem. Suppose you wanted to try a different ratio, see how it affected speed and accelleration (and move it higher from the floor)? You practically have to disassemble the entire squarebot to change one gear!
Tac
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Tac
If you think about it, the tedium of (dis)assembling a design a zillion times as you iteratively test and improve it is exactly part of educating a MindStorm user about what they face in an FRC robot. Those FRC big boys rarely pop together/apart like LEGO blocks.
That you don't have to cut, bend, weld, solder, etc. when rearranging Vex parts is still a blessing compared to how I presume many FRC bots get revised.
So.... Maybe the Vex kits are "just right" for helping students make the leap from LEGOs to FRC bots.
On the other hand - "Maybe not." and "Yes - I agree." Building the same basic wheel design over and over and over again, is getting wearisome at my house too. There are a few parts and subassembly patterns that need to be supplied as COTS out-of-the-box parts.
Blake
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