New stuff?

VEX V5 General Discussion
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Hold on. Is this new content I see?

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#2

Vex appears to have added new content for even younger kids than middle school.
123 seems like a very basic coding bot that is just a chassis on wheels.
Go seems to be a simplified version of IQ.
Wonder if there’ll be competitions for them lol

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#3

Be kinda cool if there was a drag race for that tho. (elementary of course)

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#4

It’s a good idea. It’s hard to get high school Kids into robotics. If you cultivate there interest at a younger age it would help. Especially kids who aren’t necessarily book smart, but are really good with there hands.

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#5

What about Vex Go? It appears to be IQ pieces, but just different electronics. Maybe they would start a competition for it. It seems like you can use Vexcode to program it.

#6

123 would literally be a simplified version of FLL but with no attachments

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#7

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Looks like they have a plan for everybody

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#8

Does this mean reworked age rules?

#9

Maybe, but in all honesty it depends on their future plans for the competitions

#10

probably because some people have been discussing loopholes with the ages

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#11

Vex was presenting new stuff at FETC 2020 all day long.

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I believe, these were the new product leaks

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#12

I hope this doesn’t mean revised VEXIQ rules, I still want to be able to get 3 and 4 graders. Let’s hope for an overlap.

But I’m about to be super excited if the “GO” robots use the motors from the Hexbug line (Build Blitz, Gatling Gun) and is programmable.

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#13

Looking at this graphic, it is listing IQ for grades 5-8 and V5 for 9-12. I wonder if VEX is just promoting the various levels or if there is some plan for moving grades 6-8 away from V5.

#14

I be,leve that those guidelines are for a classroom setting. If they did get rid of MS VRC, then I bet that a lot would either flock to IQ or stop doing VEX.

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#15

I think you’re right on! As much as we like to think competition is everything, VEX probably sells to education 2 to 1 or more.

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#16

I think you dropped a zero, 20 to 1 would be closer. In my region, there are about 60 VEXIQ team, in my district there are about 120 VEXIQ kits in classrooms. There are 39 districts so an average of 30 kits per district would put us 20 to one.

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#17

Does this mean that we all have to use claw bots for hs now? :wink:

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#18

That appears GO brains will be programmable by VEXCode blocks also. This would seem to be the perfect entry for 3rd & 4th graders. Built in ‘Intertial Sensor’ and four ports (for motors, LED Bumper Sensor and Optical Senors) we can prepare them for the full IQ kit with ‘right-sized’ tools.

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#19

Yes, harken back to the first years of VRC and most of the bots were claw bots. “All Hail the Clawbot!”

So it looks like there are two on the “front” that we can see, that looks like the existing Hexbug brain with the Power jack and an additional jack (sensor???). The other side has 4 for motors?

In looking closely at the pictures, the two on the front have the weird RJ connectors with the offset, the four on the front have standard looking RJ. Fingers still crossed for the same motors as Hexbug

With only three motors hard to do a nimble clawbot.

Wish that the details were available now, but I the troops should be home from Miami soon.

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#20

I think the orange logo’d port is the power (if similar to the build blitz equipment). Curious what the Blue logo’d port is for, maybe for a sensor. The build blitz brain, which looks really similar came with four motors.

Another difference is that the Build Blitz brain has the ‘inertial sensor’ logo on it, while I don’t see that in the VEX Go brains.

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