My name is Aragya Goyal, and I am a junior at Spring-Ford High School. I had an idea this past week about making a website that would be a one-stop shop for all things Vex EDR. Throughout my vex career, I have noticed a lack of resources on design and building. Even for simple systems such as a dr4b lift, i would have to spend hours digging through the internet to get to something that would help. I want to try and alleviate this by creating a website that will have resources to many things especially for newcomers. Although it is still in the early stages, I plan on including CAD models of different drivetrains, lifts, etc. Basic stuff that should be able to explain a concept to a team and then allow them to make modifications as the feel is necessary. I want to include basic build techniques etc. in the website as well. A project like this however is a massive undertaking for one highschool student so I am trying to reach out on Vex Forum to see if there would be any interest in helping make this website. Feel free to ask questions and give feedback! Also if you are interested in helping out please fill out the google form attached.
It’s cool that you want your own site to help people but, most will be on VEX forum because it is a professional site with people from VEX to help you. It may be hard to get people to go on the site but maybe not
While the vex forum is a great resource for new comers, I think a place with that has CAD models of the most commonly used mechanisms and concepts will be a great place for builders who are starting off.
I like the initiative you’re taking to increase the amount of mechanical knowledge out there for the VEX community! The VEX Advanced Wisdom project also has a dedicated wiki already up and we’d like to invite you to add to our mechanical section. We only recently started this mechanical section, and I feel like our collaboration would benefit the VEX community as a whole.
True, but this will make it so if someone has a question about a certain thing like a drive train in stead of writing a terribly long post About it, we can just add a link to the website.
So the website will be built through the use of Google Sites but we will also be partnering up with the purdue sigbot website in order to help out each other.
For the wiki portion, the sigbots wiki has markup language that you can use to create your articles with. Creating a pull request to the github repository linked to the gitbook will allow you to add or modify articles.
It is a good place to get info but there aren’t any cad models that are included there it seems like. Some of the systems used in vex are really complex to newcomers and sometimes the best way to see how it works is to be able to interact with it in a 3d environment.
This seems cool, but since the community Wiki on VF already has a lot of information, why not just add your CAD models and anything else you think is lacking to it? It’s less work and it compiles all the information in one place.
