Best Cart

[DanL]

Originally posted by Jim Giacchi
[b]
Complete Stats:
2 10' 600 Watt Subs
2 5 x 9 door speakers
1 800 Watt Amplifier (Hence The Tagline)
1 Alpine CD, Am-Fm Radio Headunit

Dear lord, how much did that system cost you?

[Alex Forest]

props definitely go to 41....that was SOOO cool!!! hehe we got the best cart award from MOE at Philly......HAHAHAHAHHAHA funny we were sitting here cursing the stupid thingg....it tipped 3 times on the field becuz it is offbalance without the robot....it broke our poor little red light into a million pieces when it landed on it....lol yes, i think we get the most dangerous cart...oh yeah, and it broke the floor at nats....we left a lovely crack all the way from our pit to the door....oops prob shouldnt have said that...

[Jim Giacchi]

Originally posted by SuperDanman


Dear lord, how much did that system cost you?

We borrowed the subs and the door speakers. The amp was lying around unused and we purchased the headunit. So the only thing we had to buy was the headunit. Which we would not have had to buy if someone had not blown out the one we got for free. (I swear i didn't know the battery was connected backwards)

[DanL]

Oh, so if the whole system is borrowed, does that mean you guys had to give it back when you got the crate back?

[Gui Cavalcanti]

I'm sorry, but 422 has to take the award for most ghetto dolly ever. There are no doubts. First of all, it isn't even a solid piece of wood. It's quite literally what two guys on our team found when they first walked into the robotics room. There are two bars of 1x1 plywood about 2 or 3 feet long roughly parallel to each other and 1 or 2 feet apart, and at each end there are two pieces of barstock aluminum connecting them. Mounted underneath the barstock on each of the corners are four pieces of uneven HDPE (I told you, whatever they found on the floor they used...) and beneath that are casters. The casters aren't aligned with the front or the back, and one of them doesn't even touch the floor. There are two hinges bolted to one piece of barstock, to originally serve as the hinges for a handle of some sort. Alas, it was not to be, and the hinges remain without handle. There is a piece of rope tied around the two front casters, for lack of a better place to put it. The whole assembly is so ghetto that we have to off-set the robot on our dolly (so part of it hangs off one side) so that the robot doesn't ride on it's sprockets. The whole assembly is kept in one piece by 10 self-tapping screws.

A picture of our robot on the sad dolly: http://www.firstrobotics.net/02gallery/422-1.jpg

Nobody comes close, I'm afraid. If you're going to Maryland this summer, I'll show you the patented way to sit on the dolly and balance the OI on it as well so that you can try chariot racing (the dolly always pulls to the side, unfortunately... so you're always at an angle to where the robot is going...).

Ian, don't even try to counter the claim to ghettoness

Oh, and Digo: The english translation of susto is approximately "a big shock or surprise".. I tend to define it as that which can make me jump a foot or two in the air

[Mike Norton]

http://www.valleytech.k12.ma.us/Robo...s/roboti88.jpg


To bad we did not go to the national this year but this is what we have taken to the nationals in the past.

This was build with a rear end of a golf cart, a lawnmower, and alot of wood. We had a nice sound system. and plenty of room for all the tools.

We had alot of power in this car.

I forgot to mention the set of air horns to move people out of the way.

[DanL]

Hmm, maybe you did beat our dolly in terms of ghettoness. But WE didn't have any string to pull it by until Saturday! On saturday, we were exauhsted from breaking our backs by leaning over it and pushing it, so we found some rope at the pit admin table and borrowed a few feet. Man, and I thought we were bad... =D

[Ian W.]

lol, dan, i do think that gui has beat us. although the fact that we broke our backs pushing the dang robot to einstein and back, and also carrying the too heavy OI. next year, i'm taking a nice light piece of wood, some crazy glue and/or duct tape, and a few screws for the OI controller. that way, it's nice and light. or, we could just incorporate a "OI Holder" into the dolly that you're modeling. then we can still have a nice big OI with a big "810" on the front. MAybe get a huge piece of lexan and put LED's in it. that would top the HUD from 329 .

[GregT]

Watch- with all this effort being put into carts, next year's robots will fit in the palm of your hand

[Andrew Rudolph]

Watch- with all this effort being put into carts, next year's robots will fit in the palm of your hand

HAHAHA wouldnt that be sight to see little robots on huge carts.



a few years ago I rember team 157 the AZtechs had a sweet cart with smoke machiens and sound systems all around a kool thing




Andrew

[mpking]

About 3 (or is it 4 now because of the season change?) years ago, The NJ Regional was having an undeclared cart contest (I think RoboRaiders were winning, they still have the cart, but they don't use it to full effect) that was spanning multiple years.

Then FIRST asked us (as a Regional as a whole) to not use the lights/music/sirens/airhorns/strobe lights anymore, so everyone stopped.

Period.

I'm not that surprised to see it picking up again, but keep in mind before you blow huge amounts of money on these things, to include an off switch, because FIRST most likely will make the same request again if it starts interfering.

Maybe some self imposed limits of only in the Pits and hallways, but not while the compeition floor is visible will allow the fun to continue longer.

[Jim Giacchi]

No need at the New York Regional and at Nationals we were askd to turn off the music as soon as we passed the first staging volunteer which of course we immediately did. Also the few times we were asked to turn it down so the teams next to us coulld discuss something we also promptly complied.

[Koko Ed]

Best cart hands down, no contest, is Team 68 Truck Town Thunder's mini pickup truck.

[dixonij]

Someone in Virginia had a little car they built. I think it was the team whose bot's name is Horsepower. Im not sure though. It was cool.