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Re: Building Vex Robots: Books or articles?
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Originally Posted by sparksandtabs
VEX is all about learning, if you own your own kit at your disposal, then jst build things. Plan it out and actually engineer your robot. This shoudl go here because this will help the CG and this will help it this way. I made the frame like this because.......You know that kind of thing.
Pick a task you want to see a robot do and build a robot to do it!!! Just have fun.
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There are lots of things that can be learned with a Vex kit. Sometimes what a person wants to learn is not how to build a mechanism. Sometimes applying mechanical design templates refined by others is the best way to stand on the shoulders of giants and accelerate progress in another field or in extending the boundaries of the mechanical design field...
If anyone out there has begun collecting Vex mechanical design patterns into an album, I, like tacman1123, am one of the people who would like to study the designs.
Blake (hopeful) Ross
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12-06-2006, 23:46
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