Crazy Crates

[Doctorwho]

Team 1986 made a Weighted Companion Cube Crate for their robot

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by Doctorwho

Team 1986 made a Weighted Companion Cube Crate for their robot

pics???

[Pat Major]

494s shipping crate/workshop. Clamshell design hinged with large piano hinge in center. Cabinet on left side, floor space on left and right side combine for 30 inches to accommodate robot. Workbench on right slides in and out, secured with removable pins.

[joeweber]

We used 1 x 12 boards attached to a 4x4x ½ plywood two make one half and the other half is identical and when put together they form a box for the robot. The skids are 1x6x4ft boards that when they are removed are used as shelves in the box halves. When set up in the pits we had plenty of space for everything. Last year we had to add a 1x8 board around the middle for the larger robot.
A drawing is at http://www.team1322.org/other_tipps.htm
or a picture http://team1322.org/2008shipped.jpg

[Doctorwho]

Originally Posted by rc_cola1323

pics???

In the event that the weighted companion crate does speak it's a sign that you have gone too long without sleep in the build season.

[hipsterjr]

I have always thought that team 233 (the pink team) had a cool crate/pit design. They have been using it for years and it defiantly seems to work for them.
( sorry, couldn't find a pic)

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by hipsterjr

I have always thought that team 233 (the pink team) had a cool crate/pit design. They have been using it for years and it defiantly seems to work for them.
( sorry, couldn't find a pic)

Yes they do, i stopped by during nationals and did anyone make a diamond plated aluminum crate?

[Katie_UPS]

Originally Posted by rc_cola1323

Yes they do, i stopped by during nationals and did anyone make a diamond plated aluminum crate?

I think team 1714 has one of those...

[=Martin=Taylor=]

FRC 522 (The RoboWizards) Have a diamond plated crate.

Team 386 has probably the most sexy crate I have ever seen. It looks like it was professionally made out of sheet metal and powder coated yellow.

srsly, couldn't find any pics

[yodameister]

hmmmm....how about a Lexan crate. Customs should have no problems

[RyanS]

294's newer crate

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32994

It worked out very well in LA and Vegas.

[jspatz1]

Originally Posted by Doctorwho

Team 1986 made a Weighted Companion Cube Crate for their robot

pics???

Here's is a better pic of our Weighted Companion Crate sitting in Atlanta. Yes, we use the crate to create our pit structure. Two adjacent sides and the bottom stay together and become the rear corner of the pit. The two remaining sides attach to and extend those 2 sides, creating a solid wall at the rear and one side. Shelves are applied to these walls.

[Andrew386]

I realize this is a couple years late, but maybe Martin is still around. This is actually my first year with 386 and I have to agree, our crate is awesome. It's made by EDAK, a local company that specializes in rugged aluminum cases. They're a wonderful sponsor of ours, and can obviously do miracles with aluminum. Here's a pic I took with my phone as we were packing up this year at the Florida regional:

[efoote868]

That crate looks like it weighs 400 lbs? Is there any weight left over for your robot?

[Andrew386]

Originally Posted by efoote868

That crate looks like it weighs 400 lbs? Is there any weight left over for your robot?

Nah, it's not as heavy as it looks. It's aluminum, not steel. We don't fill it with a whole lot of tools (though there are a couple separate compartments we can use for storing things), so really there's not much in there other than the robot. I don't know any of the shipping details, but I do know that we didn't have an "overweight" sticker. I would imagine we're close, though.