Mystbusters own Grant Ishihara challenged students to create a new robot desing based on the parts which came in the Vexplorer Kit which debuted last Christmas season. The winners of the contest have been covered by the magazine Robot. (Check out the article and video's of the winners at http://www.botmag.com/) Since this competiton was aimed at students we did not participate. My son and I did design, a Vex Robot of our own configuration which we have dubbed "Scorpion". The only parts not from the original kit are the 9.6v battery, the Vex Wrist add-on, and some tape to mount the control unit where bolts were not feasible. At some point in the future the tape may be replaced with hook and loop fastener.
We are posting pictures of our creation along with a video you can check out.
As a side note we'd like to see more father and son teams at the competitions (not to mention mother-son, father-daughter and so on.)
New Vex Builder
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