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Great info!

Tony Giammarinaro (Team 569 & 496 Engineer Lead) wrote:
> By the way Keith,
> Those kits by IPS are way over priced for what they contain.
> Best bet, go with individual parts you choose on your own.
> If pay $325 for extrusion and parts for this robot (or worse yet, 1K) something is wrong.
> We built ours with $100 worth of material.

Oh, HO!! One of our students volunteered to look and add up their kit prices, but hasn't gotten back to us yet.

Very sneaky... <grin>

This is GREAT information, folks. So *is* IPS their own brand, or a re-label of another? Any other comments about, or experience stories from working with either IPS or Bosch?

Anyone want to express an opinion on this "80/20" stuff I'm hearing rumors about (any URLs for THAT one)? How about other brands? How do THEY compare to these two?

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