Geek and Bots

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Look at my loot...

It was my birthday and those who knew about it got me some wonderful robotic goodness from VEX labs. The pictures of my unveiling are below.

This is a great prototyping kit. It will allow fast building of your robotic dreams without the fuss of dealing with machining your own parts. It will also allow you to expand out of the confines of the vex kits and use off the shelf parts. Normally this would be quite an investment, however radioshack had been running a 50% off sale for the last 2 weeks and the loot was obtained at quite a steal (thus the legal use of the term "loot").


Look at all this loot from the line tracker kit.


The line tracker kit.


This is what you get inside the power kit box.


The power pack kit.


Optical shaft encoder kit's contents.


The optical shaft encoder kit.


A line following track. Notice the official VEX glasses on my wonderful assistant.


Programming kit's entrails


The VEX programming kit


She's mad because I refuse to read the instructions.


The brains of this outfit


Le Guts O Starter Kit


The VEX starter kit

An introduction

Greetings and salutations.

As a self professed geek I have decided to share my experiments with the greater blogosphere. You can expect this page to document my journeys into electronics and robotics.

So please, come back every so often, and maybe you will find something interesting.