We've used the bins as a giant podium. Two stacks of two, and then we placed our 'bot on top of it. (The next day was a teacher workday and our school-employed sponsor wasn't always the happiest camper when she came in the mornings and found metal filings and such on the ground.) We wanted her to see what we'd done.

we store our freshman in our bins!

to build a home away from home... if only I could run an extension cord to the bin igloo...

At the Canadian Regional 3 bins made up the podium that all the speakers used...

I have 2 bins on the other side of my room filled up with newspapers....

We stuffed babies and small children in them. Err...uhh...err. *runs away* Warning labels are tossed to the wind. HA!

Err...well, actually...they're still sitting in our shop.

At Rutgers, I went dumpster diving and found a bin with FIRST stickers in place. I now have parts of an official bin. (Rather than lugging the entire bin onto the bus, I cut off the side of the bin with the sticker and took it :D)

we used the to set are controls on, sit on them, and just to screw around with them. After being in the shop for 8 hours a day on saturday we found many uses for them

Yup, bins...

What a wonderfull usefull item to have in a shop. Not only do we use them for storage and practice but the opportunities are endless when it comes to these modern wonders.

Take for instance the time at the shop in between practice rounds, when you're bored and don't know what to do... hmmm ... how about a game of toss-the-bin. Or turn the lid into a flying projectile:D Or better yet freshman dodge-bin. (My personal favorite).

Ramp Snowboard........

...or Skis, just depend on how ambious you are

One bin lid for snowboard
half bin lids for skis
and tub minus lid (remember safety warnings) for kiddie sled

Safety Glass container, it works great

Robot food, that's why they use so many of them

and previous mentioned uses,

mmm
 

furniture!
and sometimes horses.

*shudder*

low budget nationals trip
 

well working on a last minute low budget, we slapped some first stickers on them and packed all our team and shipped them to houston....... not really wanna see what we did with them, check out Jack the Stack

i think our human player just took them for kicks : P

but we did use them when we were moving tools, equipment etc.. nice shiny reflective tape too.. *ooh*

oooOOOoo
 

ooOoooOoooo shiny........yeah... soemhow throwing the bins became a type of catch?

at sacramento, our alternate human player and the other team managed to do the PERFECT bin-throw... and we got chastised by the refs for it :(

what ups with picking on freshmen? were geeky little dorks who dont know any better...i mean how would you feel it the robot started driving after you throwing bins at you?


We use our bins as noise makers

we have a better way to store our team members than bins

Stacked two high is good for a driving station
Electrical bench (if you are careful)
Shipping parts
Broken parts
Sanity buddy's house
Programming desk

and best of all, to put the team's "babies" in...just because it said not to



this is how to properly store spare team members