[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Pavan

Okay BUT honestly, when at demos or at competitions people don't pay attention and from time to time you NEED to use your horn. Also about the music, our team listens to music at the facility using the cart, and when we go to demo's we use it for music. If you want a good cart you will incorporate these, because I'm assuming you are building a ROBOT cart and not a FRC cart.

If you have it and don't use it its all good, its when you use it is where FIRST has problems *sigh*..-.

Pavan,

You and Kristian are both right.

Kristian- Good job Reading The FIRST Manual! The rules are everyone's friend. If one was making a cart for use only in FRC, then these rules should be followed, 100%. However, as Pavan mentioned, some teams use their cart for demos. Music at those demos is fine-- however, there are other ways to do this (almost EVERYTHING is portable now) besides putting it on your cart. If a team was to bring their tricked-out cart to a FIRST event, though, it would be the team's responsiblity to stick to the honor code of FIRST. Remember, the music/horn rule wasn't made to suck all the fun out of making your robot cart, but so that the pit and field announcements are not interrupted.

In essence, you can make your cart as cool as you want, but you should probably stick to the rules when there are rules given to you. It's the gracious thing to do.