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Re: Build a robot with a $1000 budget
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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
If you want to go FIRST-like and can donate stuff like Victors you can run a Vex microcontroller ($50 on ebay) with a PDB and Victors for the drive. Buying a CRIO for such a simple robot is overkill.
Instead of using a Vex Controller, which buying would be cheaper, I would suggest using one of the IFI controllers. This is for two reason any local FIRST team near you probably has a dozen and wouldn't mind giving one up for no cost, plus if you do make this first connection with a FIRST team you will probably find them willing to help mentor some of your students on how to build what you want.

Also you could buy just the chassis that you saw here and then add some toughboxes, motors, and wheels for less than around $300
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