Coolest 'Bot Carts

[the_short1]

Indeed.. team 68 (truck team thunder), team 1305 has a forklift thats pretty cool too... . and i forgot the team, but they had a whole cart with tons of subs , dvd, LCD, all black high gloss fiberglass.. twas amazing!

[RogerR]

Originally Posted by Bcahn836

Yes it will be tethered, and we are using a joystick from 2003. The motors are set about walking speed so we will just walk behind it with the robot secured to the top.

this is pro'lly a dumb question, but what would you guys do if you were late for a match, and had to make a run for it? would you be able to push your cart?

[Bcahn836]

Originally Posted by RogerR

this is pro'lly a dumb question, but what would you guys do if you were late for a match, and had to make a run for it? would you be able to push your cart?

Yes, the wheel chair motors are free spining, and they also have a brake on them as well.

[russell]

Lifting a robot with power from 12v batterie(s) would be a snap. Anyone ever use one of those deals the appliance installation people have where you plug a vaccum into it and it will lift your refrigerator right up? Its pretty cool, all you gotta do is give your refrigerator a tap and it will slide right across the kitchen. If you just got one of those and got an old (or new, we just like old stuff) inverter you should be set. Just vaccums are kinda loud, and you might have to use multiple batteries.

[Jeff K.]

All of your carts sound really cool. Our cart pretty much is a dolly. If we every get really fancy, we might even use a bar stool racer that some of us are trying to build and drive that to the competitions and have the robot on the dolly towed to the racer. Our team doesn't really put much work or time into actually building a cart, but all of your carts sound pretty cool, especially the first one, the one powered by the wheelchair motors.

[Vince lau]

the best cart I've seen was the fork lift one, that one team had at the Canadian Regionals last year, forgot the team number though

[Conor Ryan]

ok well a bot cart, i'm still working on the design for that, however i guarantee that our tool cart, primering in Trenton March 17 is a guaranteed jaw dropper. I'd like to see someone beat it, but you people can be the judge of it.

[Liz C]

Who needs a great cart? We have man power...
I'm kidding of course. We usually end up forgetting ours at events (which is odd, because its rather important ). Believe me, its a pain, but it gives you a great workout (or back problems if your a pessimist.) But I remember a few carts that had music blasting from them and the whole nine yard...it was quite impressive, and created a great entrance every time they brought their bot out to the field.

[Doug G]

Team 548 had a cool cart at Nats in 2003. Of course it helped having Blaupunk as one of your sponsors. They had the Astrodome rockin!

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Doug G

Team 548 had a cool cart at Nats in 2003. Of course it helped having Blaupunk as one of your sponsors. They had the Astrodome rockin!

I'm sure people in the pits did not find it very cool. FIRST states clearly that you are not to put soundsytems on your carts. It looked nice but I wouldn't recommend other teams doing it.

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

I'm sure people in the pits did not find it very cool. FIRST states clearly that you are not to put soundsytems on your carts. It looked nice but I wouldn't recommend other teams doing it.

Good point Ed. If I remember right they only once had turned it up in the Astrodome (probably were told not to it again) the rest of the time they "pumped up the volume" when they left the Astrodome and went for the 1/4 mile walk to the Reliant Center.

[nparikh]

Is it just me, because I remember teams last year putting sound systems on their carts? Personally, I think they are cool at first, but after a while, they seem to get kind of annoying .

[Bcahn836]

We just got finished painting our cart today. We figured that flames were way to complicated and we didn't want to mess it up with less than 7 days to finish. So we went simple.
Simple is goood

[Tamster548]

Originally Posted by Doug G

Team 548 had a cool cart at Nats in 2003. Of course it helped having Blaupunk as one of your sponsors. They had the Astrodome rockin!

Thanks, that was our 03 cart Plexi glass, neons, Blaupunkt sound system...

[krhs_programmer]

one the subject of carts, i was wondering if first would allow a cart that you sit on and drive like a car. I came up with an awesome idea after the competition to make a cart to ride on and drive w/a wheel & pedals. We were thinking about making a pnuematic lift platform on it, tool storage, air hose and a sound system just so we have every thing. What i am wonder is if any of this has been banned by first because there is nothing about carts in the rules i think.