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Re: My Thoughts on the FTC Platform Change

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Originally Posted by dtengineering View Post
Rick, don't forget there is also an FTC tournament in Vancouver, which encourages non-B.C. teams to compete.
I'll definitely watch for it next year.

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Certainly there is room to improve VEX... optical encoders that can tell direction of travel and potentiometers to measure arm position are but two things on the wish list
There is a new Vex pot: http://www.vexlabs.com/vex-robotics-...eter-kit.shtml

... and the new model encoder is a quadrature encoder: http://www.vexlabs.com/vex-robotics-...oder-kit.shtml. The original, as you know wasn't. And the new one is even the same price.

I've become a big fan of Vex, and I like this year's product line extensions. FIRST is going to have to go a ways to improve on it. I remain cautiously optimistic.

With more than $3,000 in parts and two year's worth of experience in Vex, we are very likely to do some other Vex competitions, and consider FTC (depending on the specifics).
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