[geeknerd99]

Last year, our frame design made for not-that-easy battery changing. It also made for 4 rounds where we almost ejected our battery out a side panel due to pop-rivets failing. Now, if there were some circuitry to charge the battery INSIDE the robot.... that would be awesome.

We understand the importance of wiring safety off the robot as well. I'm not quite clear on the details of the wiring, but our main electrician for this project really knows his stuff. He's had enough stuff blow up on him before that he's pretty much seen everything.

This cart is apparently going to be a senior design project for some of us, so it'll look good, and we'll have other people help us along the way. The point of this cart is to be safe (it'll have an extensive first aid kit and a fire extinguisher on it), and it would be pretty ironic if the cart itself was a fire hazard.

Actually, this whole thing ties into our uber-cart pipedreams that we've been having since my freshman year. Our freshman year, our cart was basically a crappily welded projector-cart looking thing. Over the years, cart designs have really evolved. This year we're going all out.

We're even putting hand brakes on it in anticipation of the elevation changes in Atanta. Plus, it'll break down into small enough modules to easily put into a van or something.

Do expect photos over the next few weeks as we start getting our materials together. I'm just kinda heading this project, managing resources mainly, so I don't have my hands on anything that I could post on CD. Our guy who's doing most of the design and material procurement needs to post more on Chief Delphi. *nudge nudge, Peter*