I'm not a big fan of robots like this but damn, Taran did a fantastic job here. I want him to be in front of the camera more often. The whole video presentation was just superb. The editing, the camera, the sound, the stage for the robot, the script, everything was perfect. Good job.

@Ranlu911

8 жыл бұрын

+Popcorn If you really love robots I rocomend you to join the FIRST program its graet im in the FRC

@markusgimmer6448

8 жыл бұрын

+Ranlu911 Obviously, i'm also a part of the financial reporting council...

@RobertMcDonald_trz

8 жыл бұрын

+Popcorn I saw Taran in the lego cup video and thought this exact thing

@TheMiniCale

8 жыл бұрын

+Popcorn I feel he was too formal if you ask me, I prefer the more relaxed reviews but Taran is like a news caster with little emotion in this video, I dont dislike him I just feel like the others do a better job.

@HeyLook287

8 жыл бұрын

+Popcorn I agree, my top 3 are: 1: Linus 2: Luke/Taran 3: Everyone else rofl

Taran needs to be in more vids he's really well spoken and a mix between knowledgeable and quirky egnough to do it anyways

@oWhiteMonster

8 жыл бұрын

+djrollin212 He does the most in depth reviews on the channel I'd say.

@glenthemann

8 жыл бұрын

agreed. taran is awesome.

@barnstormer322

8 жыл бұрын

Yup.

@JlMl

8 жыл бұрын

Came here to say this. Taran rocks.

@Copado1337edit

8 жыл бұрын

+djrollin212 They should do a Taran PC build guide exactly like they did with Linus Jr. put him on a cart and let him pick random components :D

TaranTechTips INBOUND!

@randomamericansoldier8586

2 жыл бұрын

wildfartanz

Awesome video, great job, Taran.

i only came for Taran

@NeonYukon

8 жыл бұрын

+SquideARN How long?

@mei-lingzhou3692

8 жыл бұрын

+SquideARN ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@ollu60

8 жыл бұрын

+SquideARN I came on Taran too.

@warpatato

8 жыл бұрын

+SquideARN I came for Protoss. Badum tss.

yeaaaah Taran should make more vids

Really impressed with Taran here. :)

This is what happens when Taran is part of the video, and edits it at the same time.

Best ad for Ting on youtube. I love taran

"Targeted to Elementary to middle school students" Lets let Taran take a look at it.

This dude is good at presenting, nice work man! ;)

Regarding RobotC: yes, Taran, that's what becoming a programmer is like. You get the development software, you look at some examples, you spend a great deal of time trying to figure out just what the fuck's going on... and after a lot of poking, testing and reading, you'll grow an understanding of the system. Depending on your persistence, becoming productive in a new programming language can take anywhere from a month to a few years. Becoming a master programmer can take anywhere from 20 years to a lifetime of work. This is true regardless of the language or the specific discipline you're pursuing. Thinking you understand something fully is a clear sign that you still have a lot to learn. This is coming from someone with 20 years of programming experience, and about 8 years of professional experience. The road ahead is long. Start as soon as you can, kids.

@dirozx

2 жыл бұрын

Lol what? Any decent programming, framework, library etc should have some basic documentation.

@peterjohnson9438

2 жыл бұрын

@@dirozx way to miss the point. Having the documentation does not make you proficient at any particular language, framework or associated discipline. Reading, understanding and applying the knowledge contained in that documentation and developing the right mindset to be able to learn and to understand it in the first place is the hard part. Computing is one of those things that looks deceptively simple on the surface.

@dirozx

2 жыл бұрын

@@peterjohnson9438 read the comment again.

Great video, clear voice, well presented. Keep it up we want more !

You familiarized yourself with "two" robot-programming languages and even different robot kits from different manufacturers to make this video. Very impressive, and you're a good presenter. More of this please.

Former VEX iq competitor here, i can say that the new generation of vex iq software is very good, its very simple to use yet the amount if stuff you can do with it is incredible, 10/10 would recomend

Stuff like this makes me excited to have kids one day.

@Momo-zd8vu

7 жыл бұрын

martinshoosterman Awww. :)

@djmystery7235

7 жыл бұрын

martinshoosterman tbh people like you warm my heart

@goldenduck7294

7 жыл бұрын

Aren't you a kid now?

@m.a1424

3 жыл бұрын

:)

@m.a1424

3 жыл бұрын

Someone that actually wants to have kids : )

Such professionalism from Tarren on this one, was like listening to a salesman.

Great job, Taran!

Hey Taran! I love it when you are in front of the camera everything here was perfect and you are a great host! I was also on a VEX Robotics team in highschool and our team actually made it all the way to the state competition.

I really like Taran as a reviewer, it's detailed and pushes hard on the bad and the extra mile with the interview. That's gold.

Surely this kit is a pretty good value for the money but Legos are way better refined than this. Also if you already have Lego Techincs around you can integrate them with the Mindstorm. The metal axis are not overkill at all, beliveve me. I've bent some long Lego plastic axis and couldn't manage to make them straight again unfortunately. Other than that my Legos took a massive beat during many years but they still work perfectly, I'm not sure this kit could resist as much.

@TommyThousandFaces

8 жыл бұрын

Zachoak Gaming I wasn't really expecting that. I thought it is a good quality metal that can flex and not bend.

@Helveteshit

8 жыл бұрын

+TommyThousandFaces Probably not tempered correctly.

@deliriouscookie3107

8 жыл бұрын

+TommyThousandFaces best metal axes I've seen are from Fischertechnik, german quality ftw :D

@williamkwok

8 жыл бұрын

+TommyThousandFaces it is good quality metal, but in the vex robotics tournaments, these axles get put under loads of over 20 pounds sometimes. Even more if it's being smashed against something, which happens often.

@Moparornuthin

8 жыл бұрын

Axles*

do you wanna build a robot, it doesnt have to be a robot. okay byee

@adrianbornabasic7499

8 жыл бұрын

+Little Brat Gaming - William Waffle There is something wrong with your fur.

@ziamahomed9045

8 жыл бұрын

+Doge ` Or maybe youre just too hairy?

@Ben-zo5cq

8 жыл бұрын

+Zia Mahomed plot twist

My highschool was a member of the Project Lead The Way curriculum and there was a robotics class in which we did 3 things: Programmed a robot arm that you may find in an assembly line or other industrial situation, program a CNC machine to cut designs into wax blocks (and a wooden block for the final), and program on a VEX Cortex with Robot C. Other than making the CNC mill play a song while it cut, programming on the VEX Cortex was the most fun I had in that class (and the most useful thing I did in that class). Learning Robot C partially on my own was fun. The teacher would tell us how to do certain things and nudge us in the right direction if we were encountering problems with the code, but we learned the rest ourselves. It was a great introduction to programming logic and knowing when to use while, if, and if-else statements. I even got to catch up on my soldering skills in that class as the most common cause for broken motors, other than stripped gears, was disconnected leads. I got to open 'em up and solder them back down when I finished the curriculum for the semester! The only engineering class I had more fun in was a class about digital logic (more soldering and building basic circuits with and, or, not, nand, nor, etc).

This video was the most professional, thorough and well scripted video I have ever seen on LinusTechTips. You can tell Taran has a strong passion for this stuff.

Lego Mindstorms, although more expensive, is a little more foolproof. You can build a stronger and smoother operating robot with Lego.

I really love Taran's vids.

I can not give enough praise to Taran here, this video was beautifully done and he is very well spoken, overall an A+, great job Taran i hope to see you again soon!

I had a kit that was basically a set of electrical components with easy wire connectors through a piece of cardboard. The manual had dozens and dozens of cool instructions for projects, and I basically made a burglar alarm to keep my parents out of my room, and an AM radio to transmit orders to my Action Men. When I got a chemistry set, I almost exclusively used it to combine vinegar and baking soda, which was endlessly fascinating - there were a lot of spots on the ceiling, from where corks had shot out of test tubes and whacked against it. Twelve year old me would go mad for this.

Taran did an excellent job on this review. 10/10 robotic axles!!!

God Taran, you are fantastic. Great high quality video, fantastic editing nice amount of personality, you should be in front of the camera more often!

This video was sooo good. The comedy, the script, the in depth-analysis, literally everything. Definitely want to see Taran on more videos. He's improved so much since the first few times. #TaranTechTips

Right as the intro started I was like, "Please make it say TeranTechTips..." and I screamed "YES!" when it did. Good job editor(s).

Wow Taran is very well spoken and makes a great presenter, and he's funny too!

YES TARAN! Let him do more videos in the future, he's the face of this company

Fantastic job Taran. As someone who helps run an FRC team and is familiar with VEX robotics, you did a great job explaining all of the points that I was unsure of when I first heard about the kit.

Hey Taran, I was in our robotics club in High School, we built a 75lb autonomous sumo bot (push the other bot out of the ring style competition). I was a freshman, and the other 3 seniors in the group did most of the work. The bot was programmed on a BASIC development board, and featured touch touch sensors along the borders, light sensors at the front (for line tracking the border of the ring), and a hydraulic lifter made out of 2 huge syringes and windshield washer pumps. The lifter was completely overkill, it could easily lift more than twice it's weight. We could stand on the end of the wedge and the bot would lift us off the ground. At the competition, our bot lost 3 times in a row, and was disqualified. Primarily our problems stemmed from simply being too darn complicated. At our third and last fight, it turned out our side touch sensors had been swapped in the code, and the bot would turn away when there was a collision, instead of turning towards the bot and pushing it out of the ring. The bot that ended up winning the competition used a Mindstorms controller as the brain (and not an NXT series, the 1st generation Mindstorms controller).

This man is the smartest guy in LMG

@EdwardSpencer03

7 жыл бұрын

DAVID DOUILLET SO TRU

Moar Taran. Taran is love, Taran is life.

While I personally never was on a VEX team, I was on the FIRST FRC Robotics Team 20, a high school level robotics competition. That program inspired me to pursue my current career job as a CAD Technician. I now go back and mentor the team who taught me so much. Robots have feelings too!

That's my robot at 11:14 we set the world record for that years competition. I'm really glad you guys reviewed this it really is an awesome learning tool and competition.

I am on a vex iq team, it's a small team but I'm one of the lead programmers, our team made it to the world championships, we got 12 in programming.

@Oreo41212

8 жыл бұрын

I used text base with robot c

@Oreo41212

8 жыл бұрын

I can help teach u if u need it

@winstoncaeser1853

8 жыл бұрын

+Jed Amundson I think that the First program is much much better, and you should check it out

@Oreo41212

8 жыл бұрын

+Winston Caeser I looked into it, but what Taran didn't cover about the text base, was the much MUCH wider ability list, so first of, line tracking with graphical can not always work, because you have to guess the values, with text base you can take a reading of white, and set that to light, take a reading of black, and set that to dark, take the light plus the dark divide that by 2 and call that threshold, now you can tell it something like if colorsensorgreyscale is greater then threshold, set motor 6(witch is generally the right wheel) to 75 and set motor 1 (witch is left wheel) to fifty, and viceverca if colorsensorgreyscale is less then. second you can do & and or commands, for example you can do something like if distance sensor on the front is greater then like 1000 mm && bump switch is not activated, go forward, or if the distance sensor on the front is less then 1000 mm || (||= or by the way) bumpswich = 1 go backward, witch you can't do with graphical

@winstoncaeser1853

8 жыл бұрын

You can do that with graphical...

I thought when he said "Cook you dinner" He said "put you down" and now I wan't a robot that will just constantly insult you.

@Splamy

7 жыл бұрын

1. Get linux 2. Enable the insult option in sudo 3. Get insulted every time you mistype your password 4. ??? 5. Profit

@kusaluprety232

7 жыл бұрын

Dylan Dreisbach *want

@allensmith471

7 жыл бұрын

Why do you need to buy a robot for that? The world does it for free for me

@ZesPak

6 жыл бұрын

Teaching a robot to "put you down" is how it all starts.

I'm in the high school Vex Competition, and took 3rd in the World Championship in 2015!

my highschool worked with Vex EDR. they were a joy to tinker with. at the start of every week we were given problems that we would solve with making a robot. so we had 4 days to build and on the final day a competition to see which robot solved the problem with the most efficiency. got me to love programming and im now in Uni doing Comp sci.

read the title and in my head "do you want to build a robot" ended up with music from frozen....

I'm liking taran doing videos~ very professional~

I wish I had a fraction of this robotics stuff when I was a kid , can't believe I was so happy playing with Paint in my 1-hour-a-week computer class :P

Being in the FIRST FRC program in high school makes all this stuff look so cute. I do like how my middle school had a hybrid of vex components but metal chassis for their game.

Taran is great choice for these videos!

You said you could not build a useful robot with it, the fact that i used a homemade mindstorm "robot" to control my shutters according to the amound of sunlight determined that that was a lie!

@ariqfauzan4982

8 жыл бұрын

+muh1h1 Please do tell me how to make one. I have that set, but i'm not creative enough to make robots without instructions. So now i just leave it to dust.

@muh1h1

8 жыл бұрын

Ariq Fauzan I had one of these shutters with a looped cord thingimabob, and i used 2 motors connected with a shaft and a rubber wheel in between as a whinch, i used a lightsensor to measure the amound of light every 10 seconds or so and calculated the avarage of the last 15 values or something, so that when the lightlevel is too high, the shutters would move halfway down and if it is too low, they would move all the way down (for sleeping). i also used one "button sensor" thing as the endstop for top and bottom using a cord and a rather desperate but working lever system (so i could use one button for both endstops). It would really pretty easily buld, and i was kind of useful :)

@ariqfauzan4982

8 жыл бұрын

very awesome. What i tried to make is like a door locker thingy (if you watched the first the amazing spiderman you would understand). It never works, so i'm probably gonna try your thing here. which lego do you have though?

@muh1h1

8 жыл бұрын

Ariq Fauzan i had the NXT, which i think is the second generation of lego mindstorms (after the NCX). Pretty sure this would work with everything apart from the RCX, since its motors are probably too weak and don't have an encoder...

@ariqfauzan4982

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Will try this morning. Any pro-tips to make your own robots without instructions?

Wow, that is a pretty awesome video. I bet that cost you quite a lot of time to make, it shows. I wish you made more videos like this. This was the best video I seen on this channel in a while.

Taran is SUCH a thorough and interesting reviewer! I agree. He should do more reviews on this segment of technology. Definitely got me interested in teaching my children robotics/programming. Great people working at LMG! Dream Job!

Taran is really good in front of the camera

Anyone else sitting here thinking " man i feel sorry for the poor guy that has to write this stuff" I mean that's at least 10 min of typed dialog...

@NickAm01

8 жыл бұрын

Me too...it's freaking terrible.

Great job Taran! Great in depth video, great shots with great b roll, and perfect editing. Really enjoyed it!

Quality content/10, ty.

Taran, Did you ever heard of Robocraft ? store.steampowered.com/app/301520/

@osiritis1701

8 жыл бұрын

that game is lifr

@MrMouse151

8 жыл бұрын

+Grimjaw T Fking love that game

@barnstormer322

8 жыл бұрын

Robocraft used to be good but now it's terrible. They ruined it D:

@any1alive

8 жыл бұрын

+barnstormer322 how did they ruin it>?

@barnstormer322

8 жыл бұрын

+any1alive they just dropped the tiers system, made matches less balanced, and helicopter blades are OP :/ it used to be very well balanced but now it's just a walkover

whos here from 2016 taran

@droneprospects1720

7 жыл бұрын

SpecialSnowFlake me xD

@AndrewRollette

7 жыл бұрын

Ya man

@susiecolandrea5150

7 жыл бұрын

SpecialSnowFlake 2017 man 2016 is over

@Tbonedoesfsx

7 жыл бұрын

Susie Colandrea That was posted in 2016

Haven't posted a comment on a video before, but I just needed to say I am amazed at how well Taran did in this video. Hope to see more of him :)

Taran is really quite good at presenting videos. I thought he'd be awkward (sorry dude) but he is actually very professional with the right amount of humour and information. I'm impressed. More Taran!

Can you review the VEX EDR set?

Did anyone else notice TaranTechTips?

I would really enjoy more videos like this: To review and present robotics and stuff and I would actually leave it as TaranTechTips! Great job!

Straight to the point and very detailed, good job tarren, more robot vids and more tarren

try to reviiew the more advance vex robotic kit

Robots can't do my job. I'm a programmer. They won't take my job until Skynet is born :P

@marcusl5605

8 жыл бұрын

+Magister Ogamesh they are robots that can program themselves.

I'm surprised how good he was at presenting this video. Confident and sounds enthusiastic and excited about the product while also making fair criticisms.

Taran's writing and presentation is great! Can't wait to see more videos by him!

Reminds me of space engineers :P

@yumri4

8 жыл бұрын

+k1ll3rM same here the one shown on youtube not the one that I have some how they are different I don't know how though the one on youtube is basicly this without the programming part and the hands on part but those are also important to young ppl to know

watch that video the fourth time

I'm kind of surprised how well Taran did with this video. Talk about thorough!

VEX IQ really hit a home run with this, this is great. I would love seeing this being used in 4th-6th grade class rooms, teaching children the basics of problem solving with graphical programming or building something that you can manipulate via code to do things.

DID I JUST SEE INTERNET EXPLORER?!?!?!? *SHAME ON YOU!*

@jakebenjamin8895

8 жыл бұрын

thatscnot nice

TeranRobotTips

Great Video. Everything about the video was great: the research, the editing, and Taran on Screen! The segway was cool too

As a mentor for FIRST Robotics Team 1646, im very glad to see you mention the FTC level of FIRST. Now all you need to do is interview or visit a FRC team and all levels of FIRST will have been seen here. (Lego Mindstorms, VEX, and then Machine Fabrication.)

#TaranTechTips

Is The Container Store a real thing?

@RustyDustyCrusty

7 жыл бұрын

Yup !!

@adamgolden1802

7 жыл бұрын

It exists, and is literally a store where you buy storage items. Mainly plastic containers.

I'm jealous of the kids that actually got to grow up learning this in those programs. They get to build cool robots and get a good head start in programming while i pay to sit in a boring classroom learning the same thing for a degree

This was so helpful! I've been looking at the vex robot kits for a while now, and this is the only helpful video!

i was in EV3 school for 5 weeks im 10 and know how to write code for computers and robotis

Anyone else is here from FIRST?

I did Robotics in high school, loved it so much!!! Awesome that ya'll are playing/building them!

One thing that is nice about mindstorms is the Labview compatability. It is powerful and easy to use, and the larger main program is used in many proffesional settings.

FRC is better

@connor-xo7lp

6 жыл бұрын

infinitelyExplosive YEEEES thank you!!

@andrew04207

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah for high school, but vex IQ is better than FLL

Vex is cool and all, but it's no FIRST....

By far the most professional, well though out and straight to the point video made by LinusMedia Group. Koodos to you Taran!

I've always wanted to do stuff like this. Like, all my life. The thing is that I've never learned how to start with it. This was a VERY helpful video, and I'm impressed by Tarans performance here! I enjoyed every second of the video, and that is quite rare for me these days. Well done Taran, hope to see more from you in front of the camera teaching me useful stuff! :D

I've been part of my school's Robotics Club for over 3 years now. We used the 3 iterations of the Lego Mindstorms. But as a student, all the kits can only be accessed in school. I've been thinking of saving up for the EV3 set as my personal practice kit but then I saw this and makes me want to buy the VEX instead. Thank you so much Taran for this detailed review. Hope to see more Robotics-oriented videos from you in the future! ^_^

I used to work a TON with Vex IQ and even participated in a few tournaments. Our team won a few 2nd places and I think a 1st place. This week, I was part of a robotics camp with Texas Instruments and Texas A&M and we built line following DSTR robots from scratch using TI's Innovator system for programming. It's kinda like an Arduino but easier and doesn't even require a computer, only a TI Nspire graphing calculator!

i can tell there was a lot of time and effort put into this video. very professional looking and very well presented. great video taran

Really good video Taran! This kind os stuff is certainly your thing and I love the way you explained everything in this video!

when I was a kid in school, there was no robotics club, but we did have rocketry and shooting rockets off during recess was so fun and made so many other kids want to join :) It's also something I'm thinking about getting my daughter into when she get's a little bit older, another year or two.. and robotics another year or two as well...

You can tell when Taran is excited about a subject. Good video.

Great job Taran, you came across really enthusiastic and knowledgable, love the video

Terrific review. I'd love to see more reviews, robots of all kinds, from Taran.

You did a really good and through job on this video Taran, looking forward to more!

that transition to the sponsor is almost good as linus' transitions lol

loved the robot acting on the Ting ad.

Great video Taran. You brilliantly pointed out the educational value of this kit and of robotics and programming like this. I am a teacher myself in Germany (Music and english - so sorry for my bad english) - and we DON'T have kits like these at our schools. We have REALLY old computers and still teach BASIC. So there needs to be a change. Canada and the US can indeed be a role model here. I will show this video to my colleagues with the hope that they make some major changes in IT education at our school. We are FAR behind the standards in Germany regarding IT education - so a BIG HUGE thank you for this video and pointing out the educational value!!!!