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Ryan_Henneman
02-24-2007, 02:32 PM
Please post if you have worked with any robotics OTHER THAN VEX. Do the poll, too.
Bobby C
02-24-2007, 02:41 PM
i have wowwee robots, visit www.wowwee.com
i have:
roboraptor,
robosapien
robopet
Ryan_Henneman
02-24-2007, 02:46 PM
I like your 'Robot' avatar!
Bobby C
02-24-2007, 05:58 PM
my avatar is ASIMO, a honda robot, completed in about 2003 or 2004.
pacoliketaco
02-24-2007, 06:32 PM
how about LEGO mindstorms.
tuelbox12
02-24-2007, 07:03 PM
asimo rocks
chewy
02-24-2007, 07:54 PM
Yes, when i was in middle school i was involved in Lego League, and now i am involved in VEX and FRC. Its great
tuelbox12
02-24-2007, 08:13 PM
i always wanted lego but now i have vex
Ryan_Henneman
02-24-2007, 08:59 PM
my avatar is ASIMO, a honda robot, completed in about 2003 or 2004.
I've heard of that!:)
Stonebot
02-24-2007, 11:38 PM
i used to do the Lego mindstorms and i was a master at programming
Heavy Metal
02-25-2007, 02:43 PM
no:( sadly not but i only though about buyin one of those microcontrollers at radioshack when i got a science kit there.
But when i saw the vex i though forget that dumb microcontroller the vex looks like somthing u can put more creativity into like romote or automonous control.
MarkO
02-25-2007, 10:47 PM
I first started working with the Heath Hero I in 1987 for a couple months. Then I got a Radio-Shack Mobile Armatron (http://www.samstoybox.com/toys/Armatron.html), and then nothing until AUG-2006, when I got my first Vex Kit...
Cann0ns
02-26-2007, 09:05 AM
I gotta know...
Why did you put a maybe in the poll?
PhantomLeader
02-26-2007, 09:51 AM
Not that it matters; nobody has selected it.
I was involved in Lego Robotics for a year, until I got too old for it :(
Tmaxxguy
02-26-2007, 09:41 PM
I still play with my mindstorms from time to time but it is outdated now. Now that I am really interested in robotics I can't buy the sensors I want or need.
corpralchee
02-26-2007, 10:43 PM
I love VEX but also recently recieved the new LEgo NXT, it definitly doesn't measure up to the same standards of customizability as VEX but its still nice. I'd stick with VEX though as long as my school pays for it :).
MarkO
02-27-2007, 09:02 AM
I gotta know...
Why did you put a maybe in the poll?
For those involved in "Super Secret Government Projects".. :cool:
robotmaker
02-27-2007, 12:45 PM
I did lego mindstorms at a summer camp once.
Tmaxxguy
02-27-2007, 02:48 PM
I love VEX but also recently recieved the new LEgo NXT, it definitly doesn't measure up to the same standards of customizability as VEX but its still nice. I'd stick with VEX though as long as my school pays for it :).
I wanted NXT but then I got involved with Vex at school and I agree as long as they pay for it I'll be involved.
Techno-Turkey1
11-14-2007, 05:49 PM
This is my last year in FLL, but last year my team was 2nd place in robot design and we were 11th overall in Georgia, part of the reason we were only 11th is because we started our research after regionals and the space elevator,Im sure some of you know what Im talking about.
Our team name Teach Tales.
BTW we had an amazing research project after we got started.
basicxman
11-14-2007, 08:34 PM
I did lego mindstorms at a summer camp once.
would that camp be venture?
anyway back on topic, i have my own robot that is powered by 2 basicx microcontrollers, a basicATOM and im seriously considering an xbee wireless interface to my laptop with a vb controller. i has 6 wheels each with a continous rotation servo motor, its got a speech synthesizer, an srf08, srf04, ez1 ultrasonic, sharp ir, line follower sensor and will have a wireless remote when its finished
robokid87
11-15-2007, 09:26 AM
would that camp be venture?
anyway back on topic, i have my own robot that is powered by 2 basicx microcontrollers, a basicATOM and im seriously considering an xbee wireless interface to my laptop with a vb controller. i has 6 wheels each with a continous rotation servo motor, its got a speech synthesizer, an srf08, srf04, ez1 ultrasonic, sharp ir, line follower sensor and will have a wireless remote when its finished
wow thats seams like a pritty sweet bot you got any pics???
I have 4 lego mindstorms kits - and I'm in First Lego League!!!!!!!!!!!:D :D :D :D :D
basicxman
11-15-2007, 05:10 PM
I have 4 lego mindstorms kits - and I'm in First Lego League!!!!!!!!!!!:D :D :D
that would be so awesome! i have 1 lego kit that doesnt work:(
i dont really like the games they come out for FLL though, i prefer tele operated versus autonomous