I’m not here to say which is better Vex or Legos i’m sure that there is ample discussions on both sides of the fence. But from a robotics stand point. I would like to think that this is totally doable with Vex on a much grander scale. This is one of those bots that are useful has wheels and stationary equipment. I feel that this also should let the folks at innovation first know how important it is that they step up the creative process on giving more options like Universal Joints, Differential Joints, Spider Gears, 90 deg gears, Liniar Gears. Vex is Simply amazing. Maybe we sould try something like this.
Now for the link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GQ3AcPEPbH0&mode=related&search=
It’s a long video a little over 6 mins but the fact that it was created by 14-17 year olds took 2000 hours to build.
I’ll make a bet that we can’t keep our kids off of a console game for 20 hours.
(yes i’m sure that it’s only about 200 total hours of build time with 10 students equaling 2000 man hours)
I feel rejunativated.