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Originally Posted by Brown
If you fellow First Robotics teams could put a picture of your carts on the site...
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Picture of our cart?
As a rookie team short on members, we didn't have any time to deal with making a cart, so we simply used a hand truck from Orchard Supply laid sideways. It wasn't pretty, but it worked great. Remember that the primary goal of your cart is to move your robot, so be sure to make it sturdy. A beautiful, complicated, but broken cart during competition would be not be any fun. One point learned from our cheap cart is to make sure the design of the cart won't damage your robot when it is quickly placed for movement - we had to be careful to place our robot keeping weight off of our underhanging pneumatic cylinders.
That said, now that our team is much larger, a fancier cart is sure to come. Best of luck with yours!