pic: Surprise! Your crate was crushed by _____ .

[Booger]

That sucks man

[FreakyAntelope]

For anyone interested in building a lightweight yet strong crate, my team published a white paper this year which is a good, cheap, strong, and light crate. It's also easy to open quickly at competition. About 10 teams in the Boston area used this design, and all of them had no trouble with overage charges, or damage in transit.

The white paper is here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1781

If you are going to build a new crate, I highly suggest you at least look at this design. If you don't use it exactly, you might be able to take some of it's better features and incorperate it into your own crate.

Maybe that can help prevent some people mishaps in the upcoming season :-P

- Toby, Boston University Overclocked 246

[Cactus_Robotics]

Originally Posted by Booger

That sucks man

Well put.

But honestly if you think about it the freight workers don't care about one box they'll just tell you incidents like this happen all the time. is it right or OK no but it happens. For instance at the AZ regional i saw the "crew" transporting the crates, coming around corners, clipping the sides of the fully loaded crates without a care in the world. So basically what it comes down to is that there getting paid to bring the crates in and bring them back out w/o any regards to what is inside. It truly does suck for your team and I'm sorry.