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Re: Pro's and Con's of Motorized Robot Carts
We built a motorized cart several years ago -- it had a lift that could raise and lower our robot to proper lifting/working heights, too -- and then never ended up using it. It was too big, too clunky, and just one more thing to worry about breaking...
For the past several years we've used a good old fashioned drop-down dolly, painted purple of course and with Bausch + Lomb stickers and our team number on it. It's lightweight, compact, portable, and easy to get out of the way when we need it out of the way...
340 has a new cart this year, too. It's got a lift-off work table so they can work under their robot in the pits, that locks in solidly so they can cart the bot around... It's not motorized, but it's pretty slick.
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Patrick Freivald -- Mentor
Team 1551
"The Grapes of Wrath"
Bausch & Lomb, PTC Corporation, and Naples High School
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