Recycling - Challenge Accepted

[3BlindMice]

I must brag on the student members of TEAM 5437 - The Rocky Balboabots. The team members have been thinking about how to incorporate recycling into more of what we do as a team. Of course, we have an aluminum can recycle bin at the build site, but they wanted to do more. Our major sponsor, Rockline Industries had challenged us to find a use for the large cardboard tubes that are a byproduct of their manufacturing process. The team hit on the idea of incorporating these tubes into the practice field that we were building. A couple of items have been completed, with more on the way. See their progress at: http://www.rocky-balboabots.org/our-challenge.html .

[protoserge]

That's a great use! I hope to see more of what you come up with.

Maybe you can use them to store banners and pit hangings as well.

I assume you already use them to store some stock metal. You can use them to bring some metal stock to competition.

[Bob Steele]

This is a very cool engineering project. I wish you well.
Thank you for sharing this with us!!

Good luck on the field!!

Maybe you could make one of these for your hardworking mentors!!

[RoboChair]

Stack the tubes horizontally in a shelving unit and use them for storing your stock materials. Should look like a beehive.

[Meredith Novak]

Originally Posted by stinglikeabee

Maybe you can use them to store banners and pit hangings as well.

I predict they will need lots of banner transporting devices. So proud of this Arkansas rookie team! They competed at 3 off-season events before they were even a team - fyi.