Coolest 'Bot Carts

[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

[NeedMoreEngines]

yeah...uh...our team just used a wooden dolly that we got at home depot for moving furniture. Lame-o. This year we're upgrading to an actual cart, but we haven't figured that out yet. Our team is too busy building the ROBOT!
Anyway, by far the coolest cart I saw last year was one team that had a big 80-20 cart with pneumatic wheels, neon lights, and big honkin' speakers and one of those glowing car radios. They used a battery like for the robot. It was so cool.

[karinka13]

Yeah seconding Liz...we seem to forget our cart all the time. maybe we'll tie a piece of string around our head mentor's finger this year...but who needs a cart? we had no problem lifting the robot onto the field...though this could be harder at nats...

[rocknthehawk]

we use an actual car battery to power just our stereo....

[PVCMike]

Ours is till under construction but is aluminum diamond plate, built in box, built in battery charger station, scissor lift, neons...you get the idea

[Anubuss]

This year our cart is pretty cool. Now, it's got nothing on the carts by Truck Town Thunder, but, we've found a away to fuse our ship crate with our cart, thus, hitting the 2 perverbial birds with 1 perverbial stone. I've got picks of it in a thread in the crate section of 2005 if anyone wants to see.

[Bcahn836]

I am done finished with my robot cart and tool shipping crate. Done with paint, reconnected the electronics and was doing donuts in the school parking lot during my engineering class.

[wargy89]

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but i have to talk about our cart. It is only me and one of my friends building this years cart and it is all our own funding and using old parts. Last year we had 2 subs and a nice stereo, but didnt look that great. This year we have the subs on exposed behind lexan, the amp and robot controls exposed behind lexan. We'll also have 2 10" neons and 1 18" neon both are connected to a music interface to go w/ the beat of the music. We are using to cim motors to power it. 1 on each wheel. It'll be tethered. We will also have 4 6x9 speakers amplifier, Headunit, and DVDplayer and 7" screen. We were thinking about using a scissor lift powered by pnumatis but we thought it would be too dangerous to have a 130 pound robot lifted 4 ft in the air using pnumatics. It'd be bad if something failed and the robot came smashing down. Last year at nationals you could proabably hear us playing our music, Im sure it got annoying. We were still nothing compared to that thunder team, but we also arent sponsored by blaupunkt and streetglow. I have to say that cart was amazing though. Come see our cart this year in team 930s pit in chicago and NAtionals. Or u could just stay in your pit and listen

[Kyle Love]

45 will be unavailing a new cart at the Boilermaker Regional. It sure is a lot better then our cart from previous years. It was just a 4 wheeled, plain cart. Now we have 4 tool drawers, extra shelves and a pretty awesome steering system. It is more geared towards eliminations, it is a full pit, just scaled down to the bare necessities. Ofcourse, a cool powdercoat job always adds a nice touch.

[coreyjon]

Truck town thunder had a sweet cart in Houston. Definitely wish I had the time to come up with something like that. Very cool setup indeed. Although I have seen a lot of cool carts, theres seemed the most original, although I've only been doing this for 4 years and I'm sure others have come up with equally cool carts.