pic: Design Challenge: Pits

[JonathanZur1836]

If anyone has been to the LA regional, I'm on the team with the giant castle every year =). I don't have a pic with me, so I will describe it: This year we had more of an inudstrial look, we had two 10 foot tall square speedrail towers at the front of the pit and two high connecting beams between the towers to create an entrance way. Speedrails from the top and bottom of each tower extended down to the back corners of the pit, where they met, and a back rail was mounted in between them. The structure was completely stable, a bit tough to transport but rather simple to assemble. Two vertical LCD screens were mounted on the fronts of the towers that played our team's promo in split-screen, and a smaller monitor on top had our team logo. On the inside, the area in the center was cleared as a robot work area, while tables, a work bench, shelves, and tool chests occupied the sides. Also, an interior monitor displayed our match schedule for the day. In terms of organization, all drawers and boxes were labeled, and our crew knew where more or less everything was, which made repairs & helping other teams easy.