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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone's posting pics of 'bots and teaser-sections, but where is the real photo action? I want to see pics of carts.

(And yes, I'm the mentor for the team building the cart. Why do you ask?)

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I am currently working on building our teams new robot cart. It has enough space to hold 2 kit boxes and 2 tool boxes plus extra metal and stuff. It is also a shipping crate for our tools and spare parts. It is motorized using 2 electric wheel chair motors and the electronic components from our 2002 robot. And will also be our cart for the robot as well as a work bench and seating for our pit crew.

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All discussions about who has the coolest robot cart begins and ends with Truck Town Thunder.

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Definitely that one was awesome. If I am not mistaken I saw it in ATL last year.

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I was told they have five different versions of it including a Hummer.

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How are you gonna drive that? Are you gonna have controls on it, or a tether or what?

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Yes it will be tethered, and we are using a joystick from 2003. The motors are set about walking speed so we will just walk behind it with the robot secured to the top.

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ok well a bot cart, i'm still working on the design for that, however i guarantee that our tool cart, primering in Trenton March 17 is a guaranteed jaw dropper. I'd like to see someone beat it, but you people can be the judge of it.

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Sweet, I gotta do something like that :rolleyes: . That one guy early this season was talking about making a hover cart. Has anyone ever seen something like that? It would be relatively easy to make but probably very loud.

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130+ pounds of robot and the cart itself may be a tad too heavy to raise with fans operated on a 12 volt battery :ahh:

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who says you need to use a 12 volt battery? You can go bigger, or even possibly use gas.

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The electric wheel chair motors are running off a 14V battery that came with the donated wheel chair, Plus we are running the 2002 revolving light, 2 big muffin fans and some other lights in the electronics area. I think we would kill a 12V pretty quickly.

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Route the output of a gas-powered leaf blower into a flexible skirt and Bob's your uncle. Might be a little loud, though.

- Rick

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this is pro'lly a dumb question, but what would you guys do if you were late for a match, and had to make a run for it? would you be able to push your cart?

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If anyone's wondering who's going to own the Houston regionals in bot-carting, its definately going to be Team Kaos. Believe me...ya'll ain't ready for this. Maybe I'll post a teaser soon... I'll have to get some pics together.

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Yes, the wheel chair motors are free spining, and they also have a brake on them as well.

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Lifting a robot with power from 12v batterie(s) would be a snap. Anyone ever use one of those deals the appliance installation people have where you plug a vaccum into it and it will lift your refrigerator right up? Its pretty cool, all you gotta do is give your refrigerator a tap and it will slide right across the kitchen. If you just got one of those and got an old (or new, we just like old stuff) inverter you should be set. Just vaccums are kinda loud, and you might have to use multiple batteries.

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All of your carts sound really cool. Our cart pretty much is a dolly. If we every get really fancy, we might even use a bar stool racer that some of us are trying to build and drive that to the competitions and have the robot on the dolly towed to the racer. Our team doesn't really put much work or time into actually building a cart, but all of your carts sound pretty cool, especially the first one, the one powered by the wheelchair motors.

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the best cart I've seen was the fork lift one, that one team had at the Canadian Regionals last year, forgot the team number though

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My vote also goes to Truck Town Terror....er...Thunder.
Totally Awesome :ahh:

Wayne Doenges
CAD Mentor

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the plans for our cart involve undercart lighting .... :ahh:

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We were thinking about that, but our cart is also a shipping crate, we would have to take them off and put them on at each event. Its bad enough we have to place the motors and casters. But we were thinking of putting some neon tubes in the electronics area. All I have left to do is to put a coat of water seal on it, primer it and paint it all before robot ship date. We are going to paint it in a patriotic theme, red, white and blue flames. ( but if we screw up then it will be black with the team number and logo).

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BOB's new cart will also be our shipper crate, our display case (for back of the pit) and a work table. The coolest part of this is that we will be under the 400# mark when we ship, and we will be able to re-use this every year. Photo's and drawings will be available soon.

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team 549 is building the new cart as we speak...ok actually it's my twin brother, a friend, and myself, but still, we ARE building a new one. now i don't want to give away anything too much, but it is made out of 1 1/2" aluminum extrusion, with lexan/plexiglass sides. we also plan on the top being plywood but i'm going to paint it silver with blue flames (most likely, nothing is definite yet). obviously we'll have our stereo in it (it's actually a car stereo wired into our cart) and we'll be unvieling our spinners this year...yeah thats right, we'll have spinners, but not on our wheels, on our speakers. yes the front covers of our speakers will have spinners. we'll also either have some blacklights or some blue neons on it. i'll try and get some pics up tommorow after school.

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Maybe it'll hold together a little better too? ;)

Again Thanks to Steve and Team 85 for letting us borrow your robot to show people what robotics is and to get our team started.

-Mike
-1654

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If anyone recalls team 41's cart from 2002, it was the best cart I've seen, and not just bc it was my team's. It had 2 1.5' speakers, 4 car batteries powering it, a 400W amp, neons on the bottom, 3 air compressors, and 4 giant cylinders on each wheel that allowed us to bounce the whole cart up and down. It was amazing, and I think we are part of the reason that they banned putting your own music on :) it was great fun tho. I wish i still had a pic of it... it was scrapped bc the former seniors used their own speakers batteries amp and neons to build it.

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Be careful with the motor driven cart though. If I recall at nationals their were some large bumps to get over and some downward ramps and upward hills. Also their were narrow spaces to squeeze through. That might be an issue, but its still a cool thought.


GO 1403!!!

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We took that in consideration and made the cart small enough to fit through a standard doorway (30 some odd inches wide). And with the speed bumps the cart is front wheel drive and has 3" ground clearance which it might need some help getting over the bumps but not much. and we have practiced driving umm somewhat, i don't think donuts in the school hallway counts.

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Our cart is pimping, with our quadri-wheel setup. That's right folks, quadri-wheels. Then we have our all too cool pushy-ma-thing-a that we push our awesome cart with. And to put the robot on? A piece of plywood... oh yeaaah.

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Here are some pictures of the cart in its current state.

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Who needs a great cart? We have man power...
I'm kidding of course. We usually end up forgetting ours at events (which is odd, because its rather important :confused: ). Believe me, its a pain, but it gives you a great workout (or back problems if your a pessimist.) But I remember a few carts that had music blasting from them and the whole nine yard...it was quite impressive, and created a great entrance every time they brought their bot out to the field.

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Team 548 had a cool cart at Nats in 2003. Of course it helped having Blaupunk as one of your sponsors. They had the Astrodome rockin!

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I'm sure people in the pits did not find it very cool. FIRST states clearly that you are not to put soundsytems on your carts. It looked nice but I wouldn't recommend other teams doing it.

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Good point Ed. If I remember right they only once had turned it up in the Astrodome (probably were told not to it again) the rest of the time they "pumped up the volume" when they left the Astrodome and went for the 1/4 mile walk to the Reliant Center.

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Is it just me, because I remember teams last year putting sound systems on their carts? Personally, I think they are cool at first, but after a while, they seem to get kind of annoying :ahh: .

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We just got finished painting our cart today. We figured that flames were way to complicated and we didn't want to mess it up with less than 7 days to finish. So we went simple.
Simple is goood

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yeah...uh...our team just used a wooden dolly that we got at home depot for moving furniture. Lame-o. This year we're upgrading to an actual cart, but we haven't figured that out yet. Our team is too busy building the ROBOT!
Anyway, by far the coolest cart I saw last year was one team that had a big 80-20 cart with pneumatic wheels, neon lights, and big honkin' speakers and one of those glowing car radios. They used a battery like for the robot. It was so cool.

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Yeah seconding Liz...we seem to forget our cart all the time. maybe we'll tie a piece of string around our head mentor's finger this year...but who needs a cart? we had no problem lifting the robot onto the field...though this could be harder at nats...

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we use an actual car battery to power just our stereo.... :ahh:

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Ours is till under construction but is aluminum diamond plate, built in box, built in battery charger station, scissor lift, neons...you get the idea

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This year our cart is pretty cool. Now, it's got nothing on the carts by Truck Town Thunder, but, we've found a away to fuse our ship crate with our cart, thus, hitting the 2 perverbial birds with 1 perverbial stone. I've got picks of it in a thread in the crate section of 2005 if anyone wants to see.

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I am done finished with my robot cart and tool shipping crate. Done with paint, reconnected the electronics and was doing donuts in the school parking lot during my engineering class.

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Sorry to bring up an old thread, but i have to talk about our cart. It is only me and one of my friends building this years cart and it is all our own funding and using old parts. Last year we had 2 subs and a nice stereo, but didnt look that great. This year we have the subs on exposed behind lexan, the amp and robot controls exposed behind lexan. We'll also have 2 10" neons and 1 18" neon both are connected to a music interface to go w/ the beat of the music. We are using to cim motors to power it. 1 on each wheel. It'll be tethered. We will also have 4 6x9 speakers amplifier, Headunit, and DVDplayer and 7" screen. We were thinking about using a scissor lift powered by pnumatis but we thought it would be too dangerous to have a 130 pound robot lifted 4 ft in the air using pnumatics. It'd be bad if something failed and the robot came smashing down. Last year at nationals you could proabably hear us playing our music, Im sure it got annoying. We were still nothing compared to that thunder team, but we also arent sponsored by blaupunkt and streetglow. I have to say that cart was amazing though. Come see our cart this year in team 930s pit in chicago and NAtionals. Or u could just stay in your pit and listen :D :D

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45 will be unavailing a new cart at the Boilermaker Regional. It sure is a lot better then our cart from previous years. It was just a 4 wheeled, plain cart. Now we have 4 tool drawers, extra shelves and a pretty awesome steering system. It is more geared towards eliminations, it is a full pit, just scaled down to the bare necessities. Ofcourse, a cool powdercoat job always adds a nice touch. :)

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Truck town thunder had a sweet cart in Houston. Definitely wish I had the time to come up with something like that. Very cool setup indeed. Although I have seen a lot of cool carts, theres seemed the most original, although I've only been doing this for 4 years and I'm sure others have come up with equally cool carts.

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I was wondering if anyone had pictures of Truck town thunder's last years cart? Also I was hoping to see some pics of their cart this year if there are any. I hope they built an awsome cart this year and are going to nationals, I would really like to see it. Also If anyone can answer these please do so. On their cart last year what kind of battery did they use, and how'd they keep it from going dead so fast, since they had all the stuff on it? Also i was wondering if they were worried at all about leaving all the stuff in their cart throughout the night at regionals and nationals. Or did they take it with them for safe keeping?

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Come check us out at the Great Lakes Regional, Boilermaker Regional, and Nationals!

Here's kinda an outdated picture of our current cart:



Info about Team 548's cart:

The Front Portion: worthy of a rock concert
- Entirely designed and built by students
- Custom molded fiberglass for containing stereo components
- Includes video and audio stimulants
· Blaupunkt LCD Screen
· Blaupunkt head unit with a DVD player
· Keypad ignition/turn-on circuitry
· Keyfob controlled electronics
· Four Blaupunkt 6.5” speakers
· Two 300-watt Blaupunkt sub amps
· One 450-watt Blaupunkt speaker amp
· Street Glow neon accessories for eye candy

The Back Portion: form over function
- Diamond plate accents for a robust look
- Street Glow neon accessories for eye candy
- Consists of storage “cabinet” space for tools and batteries
- Includes storage space for parts trays
- Includes pneumatic robot lift to create an elevated workspace
· Four 8” throw pneumatic lifts
· Two 6x9” Blaupunkt speakers
· Four 5.25” Blaupunkt speakers

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Thanks, that was our 03 cart :) Plexi glass, neons, Blaupunkt sound system...

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one the subject of carts, i was wondering if first would allow a cart that you sit on and drive like a car. I came up with an awesome idea after the competition to make a cart to ride on and drive w/a wheel & pedals. We were thinking about making a pnuematic lift platform on it, tool storage, air hose and a sound system just so we have every thing. What i am wonder is if any of this has been banned by first because there is nothing about carts in the rules i think.

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Yo, check out 1523's PIMPED TO THE MAX ride!



Stats:
-4 four inch spinning casters, with plastic rims
-4 foot super fly stereoscopic identical sides
-Paint job courtesy of a load of bums using home depo spray paint
-Completeley custombecause no one else would be stupid enough to make it

See it next week on:

PIMP MY ROBOCART!
ITS GHETTOLICIOUS! :cool:

"This cart is seriously dope" - Autonomous team member

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Your cart is awsome team 548. Never even knew you had speakers i nthe back. Total of 10 speakers and 2 subs thats amazing. Whoever did the fiberglass they did a great job. Having the amp recessed and capacitors recessed. Do you guys have any problems pushing that thing around seeing as its soo long and probably heavy? Ever think about putting motors on it. We're putting motors on ours. people ask us bout having to run to a match quick. That's easily solved. We are going to have it so you can loosedn up a couple screws and slide the motors back sp you can push it really fast. krhs_programmer said something about being in your cart while drivingit. I was thinking about that also. But there's that extra weight then that puts strain on the motors. and also then you have the people (like me) that would want to just take it for a spin around the pits! I still have to say that team 548 made an Outstanding cart. I hope i can talk to you guys about it at nats.

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Hey thanks for the comments :rolleyes: Yeah we're pretty proud of our cart, it's our team icon and our team is notorious for it. Last year, the goal between regionals and nationals was to make it self-propelled but we ran into a time crunch and had other priorities to tend to. (As for the music, where do you think the rule came from? :yikes:)

It is heavy, but with the heart our team has for the cart, it is never really left to one person to move it around or guard it or anything. What I didn't mention was that it has a "horn" (people hate when we honk it) so it's never really "in the way"...

We can't really ride in it, but Matt, the student who did the fiberglass, was standing on the pneumatics last year riding it up and down while we were showing it off at the Great Lakes Regional. I have seen carts that look like small cars that kids drive around in.

Two years ago, our cart had a fog machine (where do you think the rule came from? ;) ) and when we used it, the FIRST people came out with fire extinguishers.

Yeah that's all I can really think of. :cool:

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our teams cart is pretty basc..dont have a pic of it but let me try to describe



orange flatbed
1200 pound hydrolic lift
heavy as anything
we can lift or lower the robot while it is being worked on
lift or lower tools and battery boxes so u dont havta use your back :D :D

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Very nice :) What regionals will you be at?

Nice collection of awards you got there - I'm impressed :) Hopefully, one day, our team will have just as many. :rolleyes:

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Oh comeon you weenies. Not even a chuckle about our PIMPED OUT TO THE MAX ride? :confused:

Dosent that contradict your earlier statement that it was as heavy as anything? So save your back on the tools to carry around a few hundred pound cart :rolleyes: .

Has everyone lost their insanity and sense of humor in the stressfull times of... OH CRAP ITS NIGHT BEFORE COMPETITION! I better get packing! :yikes:

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I KNOW there are a few of us that have no use for that blasted camera (at least not in the current rush of Regionals and what not).

Make a cart that uses the camera to track your team jersey and follows you! :ahh: That would be amazing. That goes under my list of "Things to do when I actually have time" Haha. One of these days...

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Here are a couple of pictures of 364s cart.

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1305's cart(its drivable), and 68 truck town thunder.. definately..

for audio. ..hmm i forget the team name and number.. they had a bunch of subs, dvd player, blue neons,, awsome operator interface.. . and their robot was at the champs and great lakes.. . . their robot liked the bouce on their air filled wheels..

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Pictures of 68's truck can be found on robotphotos.com, more specifically:

http://robotphotos.org/2003-championship/017_17A_001
http://robotphotos.org/2003-championship/018_18A_001

That was from 2003 i believe, she was red this year.


Just wait till next year! :rolleyes:

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Team Fusion 364 has a drivable cart, with neons, and a stereo.

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We actually do not have a Hummer body. It has been talked about developing a Hummer body, but at this time we do not have one. We do however have 5 of the truck bodies. I am unaware of all of the different colors because they do change from time to time. We started with 6 bodies in 1999; however after that season each of the team members signed one and gave it to our executive sponsor, Tom Stephens.

That cart was actually 1305's. Great team!! We won the Waterloo Regional with them this year and were alliance partners in Atlanta.

I have actually uploaded a photo of our cart this year at the Boilermaker Regional which can be found at:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...&quiet=Verbose

We did change bodies before Atlanta; going back to my favorite one, red.

The cart has 4 batteries, each 6 volts, wired in series. These are kept under the bed portion of the truck. We charge it every night and usually between when we use it during the day (depending). The batteries are great and they are actually good for a long period of time.

I really don't understand the last portion of your question, since we don't really have much on the cart at any one time. I can tell you that we have never had any problems with people messing with the cart; something great about the FIRST community.


I will keep looking for some more pictures of the cart from '99 and '00. Those two years there were some interesting paint jobs done to the cart.

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That is a beautiful cart, me and a few other from my team saw you guys in atl and were inspired to make a cart, 4 of us funded our cart project privatly as a surprise to the team, whats straped to ours is an 1800 watt 5 channel amp, about 2000 watts of audio run off the amp and the stereo (too many speakers than i care to list), a police beacon, spinning rim grills for our 12 inch subs, 2 lcd's run off our stereo/dvd player and a custom paint job thanks to our schools toyota automotive paint program. The thing is powered off a heavy duty, heavy cycle marine battey (3 days to charge, lasts for...3 days)

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Here is our cart we are very happy with how it turned out.

Features:
Holds 2 Battery's in back tray's.
Holds 6 Battery's and 2 chargers on front tray.
Has 2 compressors from prior years robots.
Has ~3 gallon air tank (far side)
Has 3 drawers for tools.
Holds 2 joysticks and the RC on the top tray.
Robot height can be adjusted up and down 1 foot.
At current height a full sized robot can fit through most doors while on cart.

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Indeed.. team 68 (truck team thunder), team 1305 has a forklift thats pretty cool too... . and i forgot the team, but they had a whole cart with tons of subs , dvd, LCD, all black high gloss fiberglass.. twas amazing!

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is the cart you're referring to the one pictured 2 posts above yours? If so, that's team 548

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I'll have to post photos of our cart before GLR or get some at GLR. We had it CAD'ed on Wednesday, ordered the materials (everything will be cut and machined) and we should have it by Monday afternoon. We're building it Monday night and then adding the cool features to it on Tuesday. It's gonna be pretty much self contained...just return to our pits and plug it in so we can charge our batteries and run some other top secret equipment :D

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Keep an eye for pictures of 1251's cart, built and funded by freshmen. ( well now sophomores)

Also check it out at UCF.

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I've seen it, its pretty hott.

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You've probably guessed that we are using a Navy/Top Gun theme this year. Now that our season is over, a student suggested "why don't we build a cart that looks like an aircraft carrier?" Sure. NOW he thinks of it ...

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If there was any doubt that Truck Town has the coolest bot cart in all of FIRST just check out their cart from 2000:

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they had that on display at waterloo, pretty cool! I like the Iron Bears cart..with the horn and such, good job!

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That's legit!! Simple and small is the way to go. Is it motorized?

I think this year 3593 is going to try and build a drivable cart; we haven't ever had the funds to do it before now:)

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I have yet to see any robot carts like truck towns at the competitions I've gone to but I have seen some pretty cool ones. My favorite is team 2013 the cybergnomes. Their cart is very nice looking and can be actually driven around instead of just pushed which I think is pretty awesome. It even has safety lights and sounds to let people know when it's coming and going.

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Our 2013 cart reveal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31UVNcLHuTk

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Saw this in Boston and was really impressed. Love that they can sit down and drive it. Very cool

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7 year old thread? No reason not to resurrect it :rolleyes:

Though on the note of the Cybergnomes, they also had a motorized battery cart that you could sit on and an RC sound system.

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while i can't find a picture of it...the robot cart 4451 used at Palmetto
(and probably will use at CMP) was pretty neat. It was a little 50's
style like Ford? pickup truck. Deam Kamen was the driver and the robot
sat in the bed of the truck.

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http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/27827

This cart back in 07' caused the "No Loud Music" on carts rule.

We still haven't made anything to top it....but if 1102 returns to world again soon... it's rumored we are going to break out the fog machines.

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Here's a photo from the 4451 website:

http://www.laurens55.k12.sc.us/Page/7548

They also have a virtual tour of their pit area....pristine...I guess that's what happens when you show up with a robot that's actually finished. Mad props to 4451!

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Our team's cart is mounted on an electric wheelchair base so we drive the cart instead of pushing it.

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Hello from FIRST Team 1305 in Canada,
In 2011, Our Past Captain Alex Wilcox was fed up with the traditional cart and H-frame our team had used for many years, so, he built us a new custom cart. Our cart is about five feet long by two/three feet wide. It's painted Blue (our team's color) with the 1305 decals in white. The detachable handle (for travel and storage) also houses the controls for the custom electronics inside, including a warning light system (8 Yellow LED lights) that can set to flash intermittently or stay solid, a warning horn that can be triggered manually or can be set to "honk" in a similar fashion to a truck backing up, as well as a detachable strobe light (on a 4-foot pole) that can be attached to the front right-hand side and can be set to flash intermittently. This is all powered by a standard FRC battery (usually one that is older or isn't used for the competition bot) which in turn is hooked up to a battery charger that can be plugged though a wall socket. The power system is controlled though a box on the front to set it to ON, OFF, or CHARGE. The platform the robot system features to Two by Fours that are adjustable for the robot to sit on. The platform itself can be removed to reveal enough space to stack three rows of orbis bins (up to three high) on the cart for load-in and pack up. The space underneath this raised, detachable platform is hallow, allowing for the storage of bumpers. Finally, the shelving in between the pneumatic tire drive-train can hold up to three fully charged batteries each, with one per side. We have joked that we want to install transmissions on the drive train and completely automate the driving of the cart, but its always in the back of our minds.

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It's not a robot cart but I would say possibly coolest battery cart!

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.349869318365793.90542.109248172427910&type= 3

-Nick

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OK, well my teams kart is got a pneumatic foot pump to lift up our robot, bumpers with our team number on them, and best of all DEAN KAMEN'S SIGNATURE
and at the kettering competition one team gave us an award for best robot cart :)

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I helped build our current cart my senior year. The ball bearing casters have over a thousand pound capacity each (came from a GM donation off of one of their parts carts) Had the diamond plate bent on a brake to fit the frame. Powder coated the water-jetted logo plates, and held everything on with chrome plated hex heads. No under lights yet. :(
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...08182999_n.jpg
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...72743950_n.jpg
Full Cart: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater