18-09-2009, 01:22
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no bag, vex only, final destination
AKA: Pinecone
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,630
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Re: [FTC]: FVC (Vex) VS. FTC (Tetrix)
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Originally Posted by bellpride
What was most disappointing about the transition was the truly ungracious way in which FIRST pursued it. Tetrix was introduced not only with subtle "lies" like the ones mentioned before, but even through making fun of the VEX Robotics kit (in one blog post, it was even called a toy). I can't imagine how much this offends long-time FIRST-supporting IFI employees, like JVN, Jason Morella, Karthik, and countless others, along with teams which thought their hard work was viewed as real engineering.
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Rereading those posts now it's really a lot more brutal than I imagined. "The new kit is a true robotics prototyping platform" and other cheap veiled shots like that. I was particularly upset with the apparent lack of communication with IFI that they were switching platforms, and that they decided to drop Vex before having a better alternate available (and they still don't). Oh well, I guess it got me into FRC ?
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