I was extremely fortunate to be sent a kit of the new VEX-IQ robot from VEX robotics (http://www.vexrobotics.com/vexiq)
As always, the first thing I do with these kits is to figure out the absolute bare minimum required to get a robot moving. Don’t get me wrong, the supplied instructions for their Clawbot is nice, but at a build time of over an hour, I really feel this stretches the useful time in a classroom. I much prefer to see a simple build, quick to put together which then allows kids to get onto the programming aspects much quicker.
So here is my design. I shall call it……. miniVEX! It takes me around 5 minutes to put together so hopefully it won’t take up too much class time.
I’ve done up some full building instructions and will post them shortly.
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The software used to control the VEXIQ is a little different to what I’m used to, but I’m getting my head around it. I’ll do a post of that shortly.
Hi,
Looks like there is no data logging capability with the default VEX/IQ kit. While I assume I may do data logging using XBee or others, it will be good for the VEX/IQ to have data logging capability as it was designed for middle schoolers. Middle schoolers do not usually do cross-platform communication and such. We use the openlog from sparkfun with the arduino platform. Hmmm!?
I am still doing some more evaluation of this VEX-IQ vs Ev3.. Well, at least the sensors are far less costly. Their gyro is SPI-based.. that's good. thinking about creating a i2c module with a nano to hook up this gyro to test it out with nxt. Just thought to share ideas.