Help on crate/cart building

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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 10/21/99 8:35 PM MST


In Reply to: Help on crate/cart building posted by Ms. Chalsma on 10/21/99 4:44 PM MST:



How are you going to get your crate around?

If you are shipping it, then you will need to follow FIRST rules about weight & fork truck fork provisions. They will be very strict about this this year I am told because they had some very HEAVY crates last year in Florida and as a result damaged the very neat but very expensive floor cover they have in the pits at EPCOT.

You will have to make provisions in your crate for repeated openings and closings. Also, if you screw it closed, then you should remember to bring the power screwdriver with you on the plane to FL. We missed this one year and had a very difficult time getting our box open.

You will need room for your control station (operator interface). You will need room for all your tools (unless you ship them separately or bring them with you).

You may wish to consider have at least one vehicle drive down just so that you can load up all your robot repair goodies and your spare parts.

I have spoken elsewhere about the possibility of driving your own robot to the competitions. I will try to find that message and make a link to it.

If you do this, then you will likely want to have a lockable door on your crate and wheels on it as well Also you will have to build it so that you cannot take off panels from the outside once th door is locked so that 'locked' has some meaning.

Good Luck.

Joe J.