What do you YOU use your bins for?
 

i did a quicksearch, and didn't come up with anything... surprised this thread didn't come up before... if it did then you can smack me ;)

What do you use your bins for?

Our team actually didn't start using them for storage until we got to the regional. We kept them stacked with their lids off in the corner of the robotics room, taking them out and assembling them into tables/chairs every time parents brought food. needless to say our bins got rather moldy from residual sauce/food that got into them and cracked from people sitting on them. we cleaned them out before the regional, of course ;)

oh, and we tested our bot with them, but thats secondary ;)

Re: What do you YOU use your bins for?
 

Student Armin, who filled the auto shop by emptying a fire extinguisher one year, sat in the bin to slide down our full-sized in house ramp.


Armin holding GP award to give away to 64 at LA Regional

Well, besides the obvious storage and chair function, our bins dont really do all that much.

We actually had one idea though...after Sacramento regional my teammates took tons of the broken bins with the idea of making a FIRST shrine to place either in our school or in our pit at SVR, but the idea kinda got killed when our moderator ordered us to throw away all the bins that had gaping holes (almost all of them).

Oh, and i discovered today that a stack of 3 makes a good podium.

Oh, and at SVR we used a stack of 2 as a kiosk-type thing where we kept a pile of handouts that noone took =(

X-Cat Storage...
;) :D

At the SoCal regional, wearing bins became "high fashion".

Tubby-garb was in vogue for the head referee, some volunteers and even Dave Lavery.

See:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=19951

Rumor has it that there will be a "tubby fashion show" before the team social in Houston....

we use our boxes to carry our batteries and to throw at people that we dont like

Fill them with concrete and tell an unknowing freshman to demonstarte knocking them down...at least that was a plan.

we try to stuff a person in one, but we use two and carry them into the middle of hallways, then just toss them.

Hey!:mad:
handle them carefuliy. X-Cats are very sensetive.

:D


:p See you Thursday, John.

Flip em over and they make great stackable chairs in the pits.... Great for working on laptops or just giving your legs a break!

The one i got from competition with the first logo on it is being signed by everyone on my team and says "2003 Midwest Regional Chairmans Award Winner" on it with sharpie...its going to become a decoration in my room!

cart
 

We made a motorized cart out of our bins!!! woo hooo
now if only i could find a pic.:yikes:

and of course storage.... they are storage bins...hehe

your cart was definately the coolest use for a bin i have seen yet!

Our mascot fits in a bin, so thats what we use one of the bins for :D
The rest are either for storing tools, software or used as pillows :o

clothes
 

i am packing my clothes for nationals in my bin. it can hold everything i need!!!!

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

We use them to test MOE's stacker, and it makes a great chair in the pits.

I sleep in my bins!

Oh, and we use them for storage of everything.

well, we named one of our bins and used it as entertainment on long saturday practices... also, we DID NOT use our bins as parachutes... if you were at UCF and could read a T-shirt you would understand, if not you might have seen the idea somewhere b4, too bad we wont be at nat's to show you

we named one of our bins "THE ONE" cause we use it to hold extrusion/metal scraps, and it got REALLY heavy... we used it to test tork's carrying capacity.

We played with our bins. People would run at them as if they were a robot, *cough*mentors*cough* or have people get in them or some would play kick boxing with them. Some of the kids on our team can actually fit in them with the lid on, scarry aint it?
We also used ours for storage but if we werent using them they typically were up high so we didnt really use them for tables or chairs.

MOEarc
 

Some members of our team built an large arc out of about a dozen boxes. We were going to take team pictures but someone stupidly knocked it down.

MASCOT anyone?

Anyone who was at Philly and J&J knows what I am talking about...

Here is the thread and Picture.... His name is Jack the Stack

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=19717


SEE you in Houston

Jack isn't going to make it sorry!!!

haha
 

hahaha


thats funny.....

we shoudl of named one of ours "the penguin"
it waddled

hehe
 

We use ours for bot testing, projectiles, dinner tables and foot rest (during season) Now that season is over we are using them to store things. A few weeks ago we tore one to shreds with one of our bots that we have at the shop, there was nothing left. It was pretty cool! What my friends and I plan on doing is loading it with Acetylene and blowing in up! Lol! we are crazy!

We used some of the broken ones from regionals to sit on. Sitting on a broken bin is not always the best idea, btw ;)

hey, we just used our bins for breaking them and having a good time. Right after we got our robot back, everyone took turns and broke some bins.

Man, that was so cool...

U guys try it sometimes