I am brand new to Robotics. I was cleaning out cabinets in a classroom and came across a clawbot kit that appears to be intact. We haven’t had a robotics club for years and there is very little documentation on site. In poking around I found all of the following software:
VEXcodeEXP
ROBOTC for VEX Robotics 4.x
Madcap HelpViewer
VEXos Utility
Graphical ROBOTC for VEX Robotics
VEXnet Key 2.0 updater
all appear to have been loaded on the students workstations at some time. My question is where do I begin to unravel this mystery?
Take a picture of the clawbot - it may be a legacy kit with Cortex brain.
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would be for programming an EXP system.
Are all related to the older cortex 2.0 based system.
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I posted a picture, is this the legacy product that is no longer supported?
it is the legacy product - the new system is V5… If you have batteries that still work, you can probably get it to run. As support, there are some around who can help answer questions.
To give some context.
The control hardware you show is the cortex that was introduced around 2010. The last year that was legal for competition use was the 2020-2021 season. It still has some value in the classroom but is not actively supported anymore.
RobotC was last updated in 2017 and will not receive any more.
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Thanks for all the responses. I was able to locate batteries for the device and the controller. When I connect the controller to my pc with the USB cable I get a steadily blinking robot led and a rapidly blinking game led. In VEXcodeEXP under sample projects I can open the Clawbot Controller with Events project. Is this the right set of controls to push? I can’t seem to find any way to push this to the controller.
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VEXcode EXP is for programming an EXP brain, you have an older cortex brain. You need to use RobotC.
Some of the advise in this topic may be of interest
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