I just competed in a school competition for robotics and used the vex kit. As stated before, it is a great kit for beginners. My only problems were that after I bought the starter kit, in order to program my robot I had to go back to radio shack to purchase a $100 serial to usb cord + software and I felt constrained by the easy C software itself in which I had to drag and drop all of my code. Prior to vex I had used First's mini-bot kit which I felt was much easier to work with and did not require the purchase an additional cable. Other than that vex is a good product but if you have intermediate to an advanced knowledge of robotics you may feel constrained or be slown down by the software.
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Sascoo @ Dec 19th 2005 2:38AM
I just competed in a school competition for robotics and used the vex kit. As stated before, it is a great kit for beginners. My only problems were that after I bought the starter kit, in order to program my robot I had to go back to radio shack to purchase a $100 serial to usb cord + software and I felt constrained by the easy C software itself in which I had to drag and drop all of my code. Prior to vex I had used First's mini-bot kit which I felt was much easier to work with and did not require the purchase an additional cable. Other than that vex is a good product but if you have intermediate to an advanced knowledge of robotics you may feel constrained or be slown down by the software.