[rjustice4]

Thanks for the input, Tyler, Patrick, and Wilson!

I didn't mean to sound like I was whining, just venting frustration with the poor job of documentation....

Tyler and Patrick, I'll be sure to monitor your team's progress. Your doing the FTC community (particularly Rookie teams) a great service with your website and posts. Please keep up the good work. Patrick, I'll be keeping an anxious eye out for your presentation, and will email you with questions.

Wilson, good suggestion. I view this as a good learning experiece as well. Since most of the kids I'll be recruiting have zero experience with robotics, I was just hoping to have them start out by building a robot or two from plans, just to build their confidence and get them hooked on the fun. That approach has worked well with our rookie FLL team, and kids were literally programming plan built robots with about 5 minutes of instruction. Perhaps I should have the FTC team start out by building Task Bot with the Mindstorms kit, and playing around with NXT-G, since that is the program we'll probably start with.

What do you all think about trying to build a Tetrix bot with the VEX plans I mentioned in my previous post? Is it worth the effort?

Thanks again.

Bob