Thread: Help on crate/cart building
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Re: cart stuff
Posted by Tom Wible.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Coach on team #131, chaos, from central high school manchester and osram-sylvania.

Posted on 10/22/99 1:55 PM MST


In Reply to: cart stuff posted by Joe Johnson on 10/21/99 8:13 PM MST:



Our cart is made from modular aluminum material called '80-20'. We like it because we can disassemble the cart and tuck it into a smaller area in our crate. We use large pnuematic tires which can handle all of the strange terrain that we encounter getting to the fields. The front wheels on the cart steer, and the rear wheels are fixed, the pilot pushes the cart from the rear handle which is waist high. This configuration seems to work well in crowded areas (the pits), and is easy to drive. The first year we were at the American Pavillion in EPCOT, we had to cross a cobblestone walkway, and we had solid plastic caster wheels. I think we nearly shook our robot apart!

Good Luck!
Tom Wible
Team C.H.A.O.S.



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