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Re: My Thoughts on the FTC Platform Change
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Originally Posted by dtengineering
Rick, don't forget there is also an FTC tournament in Vancouver, which encourages non-B.C. teams to compete.
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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
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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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Last edited by Rick TYler : 12-03-2008 at 13:03.
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