[Andy Brockway]

One important item - Do not make it so light that it cannot protect you robot.

Every year we hear the horror stories. Crates show up to the competition with sides smashed, holes in the top where something fell through or, worst story I've heard, the robot showed up stretch wrapped to a pallet. Sometimes the crates are double stacked in shipping.

We built ours out of 1/2" plywood with 2x2 pine at all corners. It has made it through 18 competion events over 8 years. Every year we say we are going to replace the sides due to the accumulated damage but seem to stretch in another year.