Robot Carts
 

Our team is in the process of making a new robot cart. Could some people post some things they have on their cart or post a picture of their cart? Thanks!

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team 885 is redoing their cart also. im currently designing a lift for the fron to it can turn into table from a height thatg can have the robot fit throught doors. ill post pics of my design when its done.

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Team 1103 made a new cart this year. It had a rotating platform that is great for demonstrations, but could be locked for moving arond the pits. It also had a car stereo in it :ahh: . I will post some pics if I can find them.

Edit: the cart also has a tray that folds out from the back side.
I attached a photo, but I couldn't find one from the front.

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If you're looking for carts to model off of, Buzz (175) has a beautiful cart.

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We plan on making one also. We want to make it motorized and all we do is steer it(nice for atlanta). :)

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Our team has a pretty simple cart, but it gets the job done. We made our cart from 80-20 and diamond plate. We have two tool boxes underneath of it for our tools. Have the tool boxes makes it easy to make quick fixes.

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buzz :) 175 has a nice cart. It can hold stuff in addition to the bot. However It is heavy. Our cart is not heavy, but it can only hold batteries and the bot. But it can easily fit into a van. It's like a wagon, has a handle that you pull and steer with. Simple but it works. We got it at Lowe's and made some small modifications.

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The rookie year, 1293 used a little red wagon. No room for anything much, but since the robot was so ridiculously overbuilt for what it was, it didn't really matter.

In 2005 and 2006, 1293 used a yellow garden cart with the sides knocked off. Holds a robot about perfect, although there's still not much room for extra toolboxes or batteries. Some under- or over-cart storage might be in order for it.

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Our cart is made out of Bosh extrusions. It has held up well and allows for adjustment and modifications.

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we have our cart station the robot up high so we dont have to bend over to work on the robot.

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Our cart has Colored lights on it and it has different horns and sirens that we used in atlanta so people know a 120lb robot is bout to come through.

-Pavan.

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Here's a picture of our cart-http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/15172

The underglow is currently not working. It's a pretty nice setup though. The push handles can hold the robot in the air (when properly setup) to allow work on the underside of the bot, or at eye level so you don't have to bend over.

It's got a stereo inside the pull out drawers, which gets extensive use during late nights in our shop :)

The drawers are also great for bringing pretty much everything we need out onto the field with us.

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Here is a wagon with 4-wheel steering that would make a great robot cart platform!

http://www.shopfloortalk.com/forums/...ead.php?t=9441

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We used to have a big cart. It was difficult to move around in tight spaces and very expensive to ship to Atlanta. We now have an "I" shaped cart made out of 2"x6" aluminum extrusions with 30" handles on each end that can be reversed to make the cart a table in the pits or folded to slip the cart into the back seat of a car. It has four heavy castors and handles easily in tight spaces. The robot sits only about 6" off the floor so it is very stable. The cart is only 28" wide so it easily fits through doors to demonstrations. It is has room for four batteries or two batteries and some tools on the ends.

Link to our cart

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hey Dancin103, do you have any pictures of your cart? if you dont mind, could up load them up?

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Our cart has 4 wheel steering, which makes it real easy to get throught the crowds at the Regionals and Atlanta. We are planning to add an extruded top to make it easier to place the robot on it each year, with each design. We currently have two pieces of extrusion cross members that the robot sits on and we move their position each year. This allows the entire bottom of the machine to be up for maintenance and repairs. We never have to take the robot off the cart to make any repairs.

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We designed a cart/create combo for transporting BOB. Here it is in cart from and in partial create from. When its a create the wheels and handle come off, of course, and the base turns upside down and the sides are attached. The top of the create becomes a table for our pit, with a removable shelf. The sides of the create double as a pit wall for the back of our pit with a rod for hanging coats.

We've since had to redesign it to comply with the create rules about supporting a certain weight. ( I'm just to lazy to look up the exact weight ) It also has been painted with out colors to be way more attractive.

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Team 1713 (K Island Gears) had a really cool cart last year, equipped with underglow.
Our cart can be seen to the left of it. We put diamond plate steel for the bottom and welded galvanized steel chain to make the handlebars.

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We've been using a simple grey cart, four wheels, a handle that one may hang things on. The green underglow and shelf for our compressor box was added last year. This year we may or may not build/buy/somehow acquire another cart, depending on time and member availability. Although, since it's painful enough to watch your robot hit and get hit, it would be nice not to associate back pain with fixing said robot in the pits...

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We have a simple cart made out of plywood, a few 2x4s, and some pressure treated 4x4s that my dad had left over from when we built our deck. It used to roll on crappy little Home Depot casters, but now it has some nice big 8" diameter ones that are rated to some insane amount (several hundred pounds each), which a mentor found at his work about to be thrown away. There is a partial shelf on the bottom that we usually use to store controls for transporting (our scouting stuff and batteries are down there often too).

Last year, it had a goofy paint scheme and some really messily wired lights on it, but the lights have been since ripped out (they released some magic smoke at Battle of Baltimore and burned the team member who realized the issue and fixed it [the rest of us thought the robot was about to go up in flames]), and I am hoping to repaint it in team colours sometime soon. The lights may come back in far fewer numbers and in a more tasteful arrangement (plus better wiring).

Actually, I have a cart-related question to ask, but first, some background: I would like to make the base coat of paint on our cart white, and then add logos and stuff in team colours. Some of our team members think that white is a bad idea because all the grease and junk would show up very well. I think that they exaggerate the issue and it isn't anything a quick wipe with a towel couldn't fix. So, my question is: does anyone have experience with white carts and how they look after/during a competition?

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Team 1726's cart for the past two years...

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That's the exact same thing 2175 used for a cart last year!

This year our cart is slightly better, we found a cart that supports the robot better and has a manual (pneumatic?) pump to raise it up to about table height.

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1885 uses one of the golden carts from Home Depot. This year we're considering putting leftover 80/20 on it in such a way that the frame sits directly on the 80/20 and the wheels aren't touching it.