pic: Hovercraft cart

[PMulvey]

Thanks for liking our cart so much. Yes it is true that we started working on it on thursday at 3:00 and ended at around 9:00 that night.
I will try to post more pictures later this week. I'm trying to get all the pictures of it from my team and get the best ones.
If you were at NYC and came over to our pit on friday we were giving out rides to everyone. On sunday we even got Dean to ride on it!
If you have any questions about it let me know.

[Qbranch]

Originally Posted by PMulvey

Thanks for liking our cart so much. Yes it is true that we started working on it on thursday at 3:00 and ended at around 9:00 that night.
I will try to post more pictures later this week. I'm trying to get all the pictures of it from my team and get the best ones.
If you were at NYC and came over to our pit on friday we were giving out rides to everyone. On sunday we even got Dean to ride on it!
If you have any questions about it let me know.

Awesomely cool!

A few questions: What did you use for providing lift (air source)? What did you make your skirt out of? How much weight can it hold? How much runtime do you get on a charge?

Again, Awesome! I wish we had one... it's a long haul to/from the field in atlanta.

-q

[MrHance]

This is the best cart I have seen to date.

Will you guys be putting out a white paper for other teams to try and built similaur carts or try to improve on this one, although I dought it could happen.

I would like to see some drawings with design specs of your cart if that's possable....Please.......

Again, this is the coolest cart I have ever seen, or could have thought of.

[Freddy Schurr]

It won the Best Cart Award at NYC!

[PMulvey]

To answer some questions....
It is powered by two Ryobi leaf blowers.
The skirt is made out of some painters tarp we had laying around.
We havent actually tested how much weight it can hold but just from giving rides we figured at least 600 lbs...maybe more.
The runtime of the charge is probably about 20 min or so, maybe a bit longer then that.

Our plan is to make it better then it actually is, and we havent had any kind of drawings of it...but again, I'll post some pics later on tonight or this week.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by PMulvey

To answer some questions....
It is powered by two Ryobi leaf blowers.
The skirt is made out of some painters tarp we had laying around.
We havent actually tested how much weight it can hold but just from giving rides we figured at least 600 lbs...maybe more.
The runtime of the charge is probably about 20 min or so, maybe a bit longer then that.

Our plan is to make it better then it actually is, and we havent had any kind of drawings of it...but again, I'll post some pics later on tonight or this week.

How loud is it?

[KathieK]

Reminds me of one my son made for a science fair project in elementary school - it was awesome to glide on it while testing it out in our kitchen!

[Racer26]

I hope they bring the best cart award to other regionals... 1626's cart is cooler than ours, but I think ours was the coolest at Waterloo, and GTR. Pic: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/31195

I've seen plenty of cool carts over the years, and ours was built on many of the principles we saw from other teams.

[Vince lau]

A team at GTR had a hover cart a few year back, but that thing was loud

[D_Price]

Nice i love the engineering design

[David Brinza]

Originally Posted by Vince lau

A team at GTR had a hover cart a few year back, but that thing was loud

That would be Team 188. They also brought that hover-cart to the SoCal regional.

Now I think they're trying to ferry people to Rochester across Lake Ontario on a much larger version of their prototype

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

How loud is it?

I was around it all weekend long.
It wasn't very loud at all (about as loud as a vacuum cleaner) another team had one of those boombox carts that made me wonder why it wasn't a low rider that bounced up and down on it's front wheels.

[Qbranch]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

I was around it all weekend long.
It wasn't very loud at all (about as loud as a vacuum cleaner) another team had one of those boombox carts that made me wonder why it wasn't a low rider that bounced up and down on it's front wheels.

Now all we have to do is combine the boombox cart's boom with the hovercart's hover and add in a dash of signal processing wizardry (and a microphone) to cancel the noise from the hovercraft's leaf blowers.

...That and the addition of onboard thursters of some kind are all I can really think of to improve upon this design.

Great job guys!

-q

[bman]

sweet cart, if only you could combine your hovercraft with our componenets (2000 watt subwoofer, hybrid battery ect...) then you would have the perfect cart

check it out

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&highlight=548

that + hovercraft=best cart ever

our hybrid battery could probably power your leaf blowers for the whole weekend on a charge

[PMulvey]

We were going to put speakers on it but we only had like 6 hrs that we had to build it before we had to leave to go to NY. But we're workin on it for next year.