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[[Image:vexSentry.jpg|thumb|right|Current VEX Robot, the [[User:Shua/Web Sentry|Web Sentry]]]]
The VEX Robotics System is a fun little toy you can pick up at radioshack stores or online. I have found this to be the perfect all around robotics platform. It makes things like controlling servos, reading sensors ( analog and digital ), controlling outputs, etc. incredibly easy.

I foresee a robot with a VEX controller running the online code to interface the hardware and a linux computer as the brain. This will keep all the 'thinking' off the controller and allow it to do its real job, controlling hardware.<includeonly>
[[VEX Robotics System|Read More]]
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==Projects==
*[[User:Shua/Web Sentry | Web Sentry]]
*[[VEX Control Libs]]

==Goals==
===[[VEX Control Libs]]===
Create a set of libraries or daemon to facilitate communication between a Vex controller running 'on-line' code and userspace applications (eg: a web based PHP/Ajax application). Over at the VEX forums, [http://www.vexforum.com/showthread.php?t=5191 MarkO and others reverse engineered the Vex Online Code] and have outlined the [[VEX Command Set]]. This is exactly what I needed to bring my ideas to life.

===AC Power Supply===
Build or modify existing AC adapter to power VEX controller.

===Brainstorm Section===
*What would be the easiest and most portable language to use to write these libraries?
*Will jvex allow this?
*Are there already open source programs that do this?

==Related Links==
*[http://www.vexforum.com VEX Forum]
*[http://bb.artofconfusion.org/viewforum.php?f=7 AOC VEX Forum]
*[http://www.vexrobotics.com/ VEX Robotics]
*[http://mjpg-streamer.wiki.sourceforge.net/ MJPG-Streamer]
*[http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html spca drivers]
*[http://personalpages.tds.net/~jwbacon/vex.html VEX for *nix]
*[http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo Linux]

==Related Pages==
*[[VEX Connectors]]
*[[VEX On-Line Code]]
*[[VEX Command Set]]
*[[VEX Sensor & Hardware Interfacing]]
*[[VEX Servo Conversion]]

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