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ChristinaR 07-04-2008 21:52
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Eugene Fang 07-04-2008 21:53
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that's sick! what are the wheels for?

Vince lau 07-04-2008 21:55
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looks like the wheels can be lowered incase the hovercraft part stopped working

Eugene Fang 07-04-2008 21:56
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you mean so so they would slide down the 8020..

Alex Cormier 07-04-2008 21:57
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Vince lau (Post 732444)
looks like the wheels can be lowered incase the hovercraft part stopped working
I believe that I heard they made this all on Friday or Thursday. It worked well and sounded so cool!

SL8 07-04-2008 21:57
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That looks awesome!

billbo911 07-04-2008 22:00
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And, it clears the area of small debris.:yikes:

bear24rw 07-04-2008 22:00
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Any videos of it in action?

DanDon 07-04-2008 22:19
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Originally Posted by Alex Cormier (Post 732446)
I believe that I heard they made this all on Friday or Thursday. It worked well and sounded so cool!
It was actually all built Thursday evening i believe.

falconmaster 07-04-2008 22:58
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...ch& plindex=0

thought you all might like this, its my high school science project. First is my radio controlled model plane engine one and then my full sized Snow mobile engine one. I lover your cart idea!!

=Martin=Taylor= 07-04-2008 23:07
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Originally Posted by falconmaster (Post 732502)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...ch& plindex=0

thought you all might like this, its my high school science project. First is my radio controlled model plane engine one and then my full sized Snow mobile engine one. I lover your cart idea!!
That looks like something out of The Road Warrior. lol

Arefin Bari 07-04-2008 23:25
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That is by far one of the coolest things I have seen. Please post a video of it. It doesn't seem like 1626 is traveling to Atlanta. It would be cool to see this in person.

Josh Goodman 08-04-2008 06:48
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WOW!!!:eek: I am JEALOUS!!! That machine looks beautiful!!! And the nice looking robot on top just adds to it!!:cool:

PMulvey 08-04-2008 08:11
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Thanks for liking our cart so much. Yes it is true that we started working on it on thursday at 3:00 and ended at around 9:00 that night.
I will try to post more pictures later this week. I'm trying to get all the pictures of it from my team and get the best ones.
If you were at NYC and came over to our pit on friday we were giving out rides to everyone. On sunday we even got Dean to ride on it!
If you have any questions about it let me know.

Qbranch 08-04-2008 08:21
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PMulvey (Post 732646)
Thanks for liking our cart so much. Yes it is true that we started working on it on thursday at 3:00 and ended at around 9:00 that night.
I will try to post more pictures later this week. I'm trying to get all the pictures of it from my team and get the best ones.
If you were at NYC and came over to our pit on friday we were giving out rides to everyone. On sunday we even got Dean to ride on it!
If you have any questions about it let me know.
Awesomely cool!

A few questions: What did you use for providing lift (air source)? What did you make your skirt out of? How much weight can it hold? How much runtime do you get on a charge?

Again, Awesome! I wish we had one... it's a long haul to/from the field in atlanta. :o

-q

MrHance 08-04-2008 08:39
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This is the best cart I have seen to date.

Will you guys be putting out a white paper for other teams to try and built similaur carts or try to improve on this one, although I dought it could happen.

I would like to see some drawings with design specs of your cart if that's possable....Please.......:D

Again, this is the coolest cart I have ever seen, or could have thought of.

Freddy Schurr 08-04-2008 09:01
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It won the Best Cart Award at NYC!

PMulvey 08-04-2008 09:46
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To answer some questions....
It is powered by two Ryobi leaf blowers.
The skirt is made out of some painters tarp we had laying around.
We havent actually tested how much weight it can hold but just from giving rides we figured at least 600 lbs...maybe more.
The runtime of the charge is probably about 20 min or so, maybe a bit longer then that.

Our plan is to make it better then it actually is, and we havent had any kind of drawings of it...but again, I'll post some pics later on tonight or this week.

Travis Hoffman 08-04-2008 09:58
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Originally Posted by PMulvey (Post 732684)
To answer some questions....
It is powered by two Ryobi leaf blowers.
The skirt is made out of some painters tarp we had laying around.
We havent actually tested how much weight it can hold but just from giving rides we figured at least 600 lbs...maybe more.
The runtime of the charge is probably about 20 min or so, maybe a bit longer then that.

Our plan is to make it better then it actually is, and we havent had any kind of drawings of it...but again, I'll post some pics later on tonight or this week.
How loud is it?

KathieK 08-04-2008 10:14
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Reminds me of one my son made for a science fair project in elementary school - it was awesome to glide on it while testing it out in our kitchen! :)

Racer26 08-04-2008 10:27
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I hope they bring the best cart award to other regionals... 1626's cart is cooler than ours, but I think ours was the coolest at Waterloo, and GTR. Pic: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/31195

I've seen plenty of cool carts over the years, and ours was built on many of the principles we saw from other teams.

Vince lau 08-04-2008 10:38
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A team at GTR had a hover cart a few year back, but that thing was loud

D_Price 08-04-2008 14:07
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Nice i love the engineering design :yikes:

Jeff Waegelin 08-04-2008 14:23
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII (Post 732509)
That looks like something out of The Road Warrior. lol
Did someone say Rhode Warrior? Ohhhh... you meant Road Warrior.... oops :p

Koko Ed 08-04-2008 14:35
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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman (Post 732689)
How loud is it?
I was around it all weekend long.
It wasn't very loud at all (about as loud as a vacuum cleaner) another team had one of those boombox carts that made me wonder why it wasn't a low rider that bounced up and down on it's front wheels.

Qbranch 08-04-2008 14:50
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Originally Posted by Koko Ed (Post 732830)
I was around it all weekend long.
It wasn't very loud at all (about as loud as a vacuum cleaner) another team had one of those boombox carts that made me wonder why it wasn't a low rider that bounced up and down on it's front wheels.
Now all we have to do is combine the boombox cart's boom with the hovercart's hover and add in a dash of signal processing wizardry (and a microphone) to cancel the noise from the hovercraft's leaf blowers. :D

...That and the addition of onboard thursters of some kind are all I can really think of to improve upon this design.

Great job guys!

-q

bman 08-04-2008 15:10
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sweet cart, if only you could combine your hovercraft with our componenets (2000 watt subwoofer, hybrid battery ect...) then you would have the perfect cart

check it out

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&highlight=548

that + hovercraft=best cart ever

our hybrid battery could probably power your leaf blowers for the whole weekend on a charge

PMulvey 08-04-2008 15:30
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We were going to put speakers on it but we only had like 6 hrs that we had to build it before we had to leave to go to NY. But we're workin on it for next year.

DAN1504 08-04-2008 16:40
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awesome! i am so jealous, i wish i had thought of that!

Dylan 08-04-2008 16:59
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bman (Post 732852)
sweet cart, if only you could combine your hovercraft with our componenets (2000 watt subwoofer, hybrid battery ect...) then you would have the perfect cart

check it out

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&highlight=548

that + hovercraft=best cart ever

our hybrid battery could probably power your leaf blowers for the whole weekend on a charge
Just wait 'till WE get some decent batteries...

Hey, if it can lift 600lbs, maybe you could use it to move the crate around too.

Billfred 08-04-2008 18:11
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I just showed this to one of the gals in my dorm residential college, and she has officially declared it sexy.

I concur.

PMulvey 08-04-2008 19:50
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Some more pix of the cart, I'll get some of the underneath tomorrow and I'm workin on getting a video of it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25467133@N02/2398999973/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25467133@N02/2399828156/

Scott Carpman 08-04-2008 20:03
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Normally I sweep up the pit when the bot is on the field..but with that cart passing by twice an hour I didn't have to. Thanks 1626!

1t5h1e1o 08-04-2008 20:22
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about how high off the floor does it hover, and how does it handle bumps?
Oh, and how does it handle?

Awesome cart!!!!! :D :yikes: :D

PMulvey 08-04-2008 20:50
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Originally Posted by 1t5h1e1o (Post 733021)
about how high off the floor does it hover, and how does it handle bumps?
Oh, and how does it handle?

Awesome cart!!!!! :D :yikes: :D
It doesnt hover off the floor very high...its just barely off the floor. Bumps are not very bad, the worst bump we ran into was that cover they put over all the wires going to the judges table.
It handles great. Its so easy to push the robot, the only difficult part is turns...you have to like drift around turns, which is kind of fun. :P

1t5h1e1o 08-04-2008 21:12
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Originally Posted by PMulvey (Post 733038)
Bumps are not very bad, the worst bump we ran into was that cover they put over all the wires going to the judges table.
Haha yeah i was wondering about those because they are quite significant. We half took out the radio tower at philly trying to get over one of those with our cart:P

Quote:
Originally Posted by PMulvey (Post 733038)
It handles great. Its so easy to push the robot, the only difficult part is turns...you have to like drift around turns, which is kind of fun. :P
Sweeeet. :D

Alexa Stott 08-04-2008 21:17
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PMulvey (Post 733038)
It doesnt hover off the floor very high...its just barely off the floor. Bumps are not very bad, the worst bump we ran into was that cover they put over all the wires going to the judges table.
It handles great. Its so easy to push the robot, the only difficult part is turns...you have to like drift around turns, which is kind of fun. :P
Yeah, I was wondering how well it would handle bumps as well. The only problem I could really see with this is how well it would handle inclines, like the ones in Atlanta between the pits and the field.

Otherwise, that's a pretty sweet cart. Kristian Calhoun and I built a hovercraft in 8th grade for a science project, and that was really fun to ride around on.

PMulvey 08-04-2008 22:25
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We are actually going to be running some tests on it tomorrow so I'll let you know about the incline. Any other tests you guys want me to try on it?

David Noll 08-04-2008 22:58
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That cart was great. It can support an amazing amount of weight (over 250 lbs) but the wheels are their because it can't get over that blue handicap ramp of doom, not that ANY cart gets over that thing well. Nice job guys, you and 421 should get together and conglomerate the fork lift and the hover cart...might be able to play next years game pretty well, lol.

Arefin Bari 08-04-2008 23:15
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Originally Posted by PMulvey (Post 733090)
We are actually going to be running some tests on it tomorrow so I'll let you know about the incline. Any other tests you guys want me to try on it?
Yup, put a flamethrower on it... Tytus would love that. :P

Mr. Freeman 09-04-2008 01:45
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Originally Posted by PMulvey (Post 733090)
We are actually going to be running some tests on it tomorrow so I'll let you know about the incline. Any other tests you guys want me to try on it?
Does it drift to one side if not evenly loaded?

Because I didn't say this earlier: The cart looks amazing, great work. Hopefully I can use this to convince my team to finally look into building that motorized one I've always wanted to build.

I don't have any experience using 80/20 Al, but do the fasteners on the bar holding the wheels that join the bar perpendicular to the frame of the cart have any trouble when you put that much of a load on them?

David Brinza 09-04-2008 02:24
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Originally Posted by Vince lau (Post 732717)
A team at GTR had a hover cart a few year back, but that thing was loud
That would be Team 188. They also brought that hover-cart to the SoCal regional.

Now I think they're trying to ferry people to Rochester across Lake Ontario on a much larger version of their prototype


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