Mythbusters try out VEX Robotics

[Timothy D. Ginn]

The Myth Busters have built a robot from the VEX system. I'm liking the Slashdot comments about it so far (they mention FIRST Robotics :-))

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.../03/19/0821204

[Not2B]

It's iRobot's packBot. Or... something close to it.

[Greg Needel]

this article is actually old

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ex+mythbusters

[Timothy D. Ginn]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

this article is actually old

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ex+mythbusters

My apologies, I did a quick search but didn't find that thread. At any rate; I found the Slashdot comments to be interesting themselves, too.

[whakojacko]

On a related Note, Grant was at the Silicon Valley Regional Team Social on friday wearing his Mythbusters shirt and I said Hi. He was with some team from San Francisco, but I forget the number .

[MikeJ675]

If you want a link to the site the actual article is on, here it is-
Robot Magazine

The link to the vex article is near the bottom of that page

[dogwire.com]

I'm a 33 year old programmer and DB admin. I came across the botmag.com article on my website (my site grabs rss feeds on new technology). I love this stuff and had no idea that Vex existed. After I read the article I ran to the local RadioShack and practically cleaned them out (over $550 worth of Vex stuff).

Some more google searches led me to these forums. I'd also never heard of FIRST. It's great to see these competitions are going on at the high-school level. I always thought it was just a few of the college engineering schools that had competitions like this. Anyway, I'll keep lurking around here to pick up some pointers as I design with my new Vex kit.

I hope more people like me saw that article and raided their local RadioShack. Now that I know about it I'd really be disappointed if RS started pulling it from the shelves.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by dogwire.com

I'm a 33 year old programmer and DB admin. I came across the botmag.com article on my website (my site grabs rss feeds on new technology). I love this stuff and had no idea that Vex existed. After I read the article I ran to the local RadioShack and practically cleaned them out (over $550 worth of Vex stuff).

I hope you bought all that after the 50% off sale! Otherwise, you could have gotten twice as much!

[dogwire.com]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

I hope you bought all that after the 50% off sale! Otherwise, you could have gotten twice as much!

No worries Greg! I made good use of the sale.

Just added a page to my site...
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[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by whakojacko

On a related Note, Grant was at the Silicon Valley Regional Team Social on friday wearing his Mythbusters shirt and I said Hi. He was with some team from San Francisco, but I forget the number .

the team from SF was 1031 I believe

[Winged Globe]

As far as I still know, Grant is with 841 in Richmond.

[imahara]

Originally Posted by Winged Globe

As far as I still know, Grant is with 841 in Richmond.

Yes, I've been a mentor for 841 for five years now. (Long before my "fame" as a Mythbuster.) It was great meeting everyone that came and said hi during the competition and social. And a special thanks to all the teams that helped out Richmond in my absence. I'll be at Davis Friday evening and all day Saturday. Please feel free to stop by and chat!

Grant

[ForgottenSalad]

Just as a side question, was this aired on the show? If so, anyone know what episode?

[Morgan Gillespie]

I've seen the VEX kits scattered through the episodes including that treaded vehicle they built, which was in that article I believe. ACK nerd starshock! GRANT! Is team 841 going to Nats or Vegas? This is kind of like that time I was watching CSI and they did this episode about Battle Bots and I could name half of them... sigh...

[codeoftherobot]

Originally Posted by imahara

Yes, I've been a mentor for 841 for five years now. (Long before my "fame" as a Mythbuster.) It was great meeting everyone that came and said hi during the competition and social. And a special thanks to all the teams that helped out Richmond in my absence. I'll be at Davis Friday evening and all day Saturday. Please feel free to stop by and chat!

Grant

That's awesome to hear that you're coming to the Davis Regional. I'll be sure to stop by 841's pit area.