The good news about VEXplorer is that it arrives as prebuilt sub assemblys. The bad new is that it can be some what frustrating to tighten some of the fasteners between the main assemblies when ther are being installed in tight access areas.
Grant Imahara of (Mythbuster fame) has an excellent artilce on the Vexporer (RoBot Magaine, Winter 2007) including tips for difficult to assembe parts. Let's just say that scoth tape on a wernce and new or a plasic probe or invered assemple let gravity support your goal. Many say they assempled in about an hour. I didn;t time it but I'd guess we were more like an hour f0rty five. Be sure t0 read Grans Article in the on-line issue of this months robot magazine. http://www.botmag.com/issue9/index.shtml
The packaging was ecellent showin off the cooler features and providing encouraging children to assist with construction there by installing a stronger sence of accomplishment.
Conteting the wire from the various motors and servose to the VEXPlorer (blue) Contol unit it fun. There is a map to operate vaious channes with various movents and as we add devices this beacomes a major topic of its own
At our house many options were explored and votes were taken befor a confguration we were all pleased with was fpund. .
Then of course. we add another cababiliy and are confoned with integrating it from a control funtion.
Believe me it's no fun to be in a time retrevial competition and drop your beverage because you forgot that the left t&B buttons are now controlling the wrist and that grabber closing and opening function was moved to the right joy stick. But these are the parst that make this fun. Many of the things I thoght would be problemms we not, and sometimes we found some where not were expected. We welcome sharing any solutions you come up with and we are glad to do the same.
Have Fun,
Gino and Al
The packaging was ecellent showin off the cooler features and providing encouraging children to assist with construction there by installing a stronger sence of accomplishment.
Conteting the wire from the various motors and servose to the VEXPlorer (blue) Contol unit it fun. There is a map to operate vaious channes with various movents and as we add devices this beacomes a major topic of its own
At our house many options were explored and votes were taken befor a confguration we were all pleased with was fpund. .
Then of course. we add another cababiliy and are confoned with integrating it from a control funtion.
Believe me it's no fun to be in a time retrevial competition and drop your beverage because you forgot that the left t&B buttons are now controlling the wrist and that grabber closing and opening function was moved to the right joy stick. But these are the parst that make this fun. Many of the things I thoght would be problemms we not, and sometimes we found some where not were expected. We welcome sharing any solutions you come up with and we are glad to do the same.
Have Fun,
Gino and Al
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