Help needed with team cart ideas!!

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by Kristian Calhoun

Just a reminder to keep in mind the following when building your cart:



Also, section 3.12 of last years rulebook states
Yes, the rules differ from year to year, but I doubt that these rule will change drastically anytime soon.

Okay BUT honestly, when at demos or at competitions people don't pay attention and from time to time you NEED to use your horn. Also about the music, our team listens to music at the facility using the cart, and when we go to demo's we use it for music. If you want a good cart you will incorporate these, because I'm assuming you are building a ROBOT cart and not a FRC cart.

If you have it and don't use it its all good, its when you use it is where FIRST has problems *sigh*..-.

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Pavan

Okay BUT honestly, when at demos or at competitions people don't pay attention and from time to time you NEED to use your horn. Also about the music, our team listens to music at the facility using the cart, and when we go to demo's we use it for music. If you want a good cart you will incorporate these, because I'm assuming you are building a ROBOT cart and not a FRC cart.

If you have it and don't use it its all good, its when you use it is where FIRST has problems *sigh*..-.

Pavan,

You and Kristian are both right.

Kristian- Good job Reading The FIRST Manual! The rules are everyone's friend. If one was making a cart for use only in FRC, then these rules should be followed, 100%. However, as Pavan mentioned, some teams use their cart for demos. Music at those demos is fine-- however, there are other ways to do this (almost EVERYTHING is portable now) besides putting it on your cart. If a team was to bring their tricked-out cart to a FIRST event, though, it would be the team's responsiblity to stick to the honor code of FIRST. Remember, the music/horn rule wasn't made to suck all the fun out of making your robot cart, but so that the pit and field announcements are not interrupted.

In essence, you can make your cart as cool as you want, but you should probably stick to the rules when there are rules given to you. It's the gracious thing to do.

[techtiger1]

My advice make the cart so it's functional then look good. Team 86 has a pretty cool cart it has a tool box intergrated on it so you don't have to go back and forth to the pits during the finals. We've worked with them a few times at Fl regional and it's always come in handy. 1251 has 2 carts actually one is for demos and one is for robot competitons. The one for demos is crazy and sometimes makes it to competition. I'll post a link to a picture if I have one. The cart has a custom paint job, sound system, and built in battery chargers. We brought it to championship in 06. Some other good ideas I have seen on carts is team 233's cart has a scissor lift that allows them to work on the robot with out having to take it on and off the cart.

Just some thoughts,
Drew

[Hunter Levesque]

We have shelves on our cart that we use to hold water bottles during the elimination rounds because the drivers don't have a chance to leave the field.

[Shamoo]

Would love to see any pictures you have. We're a new team at Riverdale High and need some good cart ideas. Thank you, Jay/ jay.gilbert@Intel.com or jaygilbert@yahoo.com

[jesse.elite]

So, I'm building (or should I say, planning for) a cart. What sorts of materials are durable and relatively cheap to use to build the cart?

[viperred396]

Originally Posted by jesse.elite

So, I'm building (or should I say, planning for) a cart. What sorts of materials are durable and relatively cheap to use to build the cart?

Holy Necro-post batman

if you read the thread it tells you everything that you are asking