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Originally posted by Katie Reynolds
I don't think they would ever disallow carts -- especially if we are going back to Houston next year. Could you imagine carrying a 130 lb robot, tools and controls all the way from the pits to the competition area? 
- Katie
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I stated that wrong, i heard that now they aren't allowing motorized carts...i don't get to make another toy.
As for the design difficulties, a lot of the things went wrong. It is mostly because of a bad design.
We were trying to make the be able to go in reverse be having a 2 to one ratio so when you turn the steering...lever i guess you could call it, then the wheels spin all of the way around. Yeah someone put the gears on wrong so now it is very difficult to stear. Second of all, some genius, (Who will remain nameless..Cough...Cough...Kevin...Cough) Excuse me, I had something in my throat. N-e way, he put castors on the back...as you can see in the video that made it very hectic. Oh was a whole lot of things but bassically it was bad design. Hopefully we are able to better this year. Armin is going all out. He is planning to buy this cart thing from Wisconsin and take it apart and then completely rebuild. The only problem is is that the person selling it told us that it can go up to fifty hours per hour but it can't stop...Armin is goiing to kill us all! LOL.
