[FVC]: Transporting your robot to the Championship

[Francis-134]

Last year, my team placed the robot into a bin and closed it with some reusable zip-ties (not sure what they are really called, but they've got a round hole and bunch of studs on the long bit). In the bin, we put in some rags and the like because they could provide adequate protection to the robot without the danger of fragments of packing peanuts getting into gears or the mirco controller. We had no problems with security or damaging of the bot.

We opened the box once we got the crate from baggage claim and the robot was perfectly fine. A really easy way to make sure you are not damaged is to place the bot in a HARD plastic bin (like what the FRC KOP comes in) with a little padding, and maybe some fragile stickers. Don't forget to put a piece of paper on it with your address and contacts phone number, just in case something does happen.