building a robot transport

[sanddrag]

While motorized carts are really cool, I would not recommend one at all. When you're about to miss a match, a freewheeling cart will get your bot to the field much faster. Also, a non-motorized cart is much afer for everyone else in the pits.

[Doug G]

This comes up every year on our team, to build a motorized, super-duper, fancy dancy cart with toolboxes, battery charging stations, etc.. etc... I say keep it simple, light weight, and collapseable if possible. And just how is it getting to the competition - in the same crate as your robot? If the competition is too far to drive it to, are you willing to build a second crate to ship this cart in and pay for the extra drayage and feights charges, hmmm?

[Bcahn836]

we have always used our cart as a shipping crate for tools, and had it non motorized, but if you remember at Atlanta it was a pretty good distance and always up hill and the same 4 people got stuck pushing it from pits to playing Field, after last year i am tired of pushing that cart, so we are building a motorized on that will work like a lawn mower with a power assist. And we will still be able to use the cart as a shipping crate with tools we would just have to un hook the motors and unbolt the casters in front and board up the sides. Oh and it is only 10" bigger than the cart we used last year that fit in the pits just fine.