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By: ChristinaR
New: 07-04-2008 18:15
Updated: 07-04-2008 18:15
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1626's cart. It was a hovercraft! Insanely cool.
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07-04-2008 21:55
Vince lau
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looks like the wheels can be lowered incase the hovercraft part stopped working
07-04-2008 21:56
Eugene Fang
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you mean so so they would slide down the 8020..
07-04-2008 21:57
Alex Cormier
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Originally Posted by Vince lau
looks like the wheels can be lowered incase the hovercraft part stopped working
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07-04-2008 22:19
DanDon
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Originally Posted by Alex Cormier
I believe that I heard they made this all on Friday or Thursday. It worked well and sounded so cool!
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07-04-2008 22:58
falconmaster
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...ch& plindex=0
thought you all might like this, its my high school science project. First is my radio controlled model plane engine one and then my full sized Snow mobile engine one. I lover your cart idea!!
07-04-2008 23:07
=Martin=Taylor=
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Originally Posted by falconmaster
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...ch& plindex=0
thought you all might like this, its my high school science project. First is my radio controlled model plane engine one and then my full sized Snow mobile engine one. I lover your cart idea!! |
07-04-2008 23:25
Arefin Bari
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That is by far one of the coolest things I have seen. Please post a video of it. It doesn't seem like 1626 is traveling to Atlanta. It would be cool to see this in person.
08-04-2008 06:48
Josh Goodman
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WOW!!!
I am JEALOUS!!! That machine looks beautiful!!! And the nice looking robot on top just adds to it!!
08-04-2008 08:11
PMulvey
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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.
08-04-2008 08:21
Qbranch
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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. |
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
08-04-2008 08:39
MrHance
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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.
08-04-2008 09:46
PMulvey
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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.
08-04-2008 09:58
Travis Hoffman
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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. |
08-04-2008 10:14
KathieK
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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! 
08-04-2008 10:27
Racer26
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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.
08-04-2008 10:38
Vince lau
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A team at GTR had a hover cart a few year back, but that thing was loud
08-04-2008 14:23
Jeff Waegelin
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Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII
That looks like something out of The Road Warrior. lol
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08-04-2008 14:35
Koko Ed
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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman
How loud is it?
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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.
08-04-2008 14:50
Qbranch
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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. |
...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
08-04-2008 15:10
bman
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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
08-04-2008 15:30
PMulvey
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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.
08-04-2008 16:40
DAN1504
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awesome! i am so jealous, i wish i had thought of that!
08-04-2008 16:59
Dylan
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Originally Posted by 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 |
Hey, if it can lift 600lbs, maybe you could use it to move the crate around too.
08-04-2008 18:11
Billfred
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I just showed this to one of the gals in my dorm residential college, and she has officially declared it sexy.
I concur.
08-04-2008 19:50
PMulvey
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Some more pix of the cart, I'll get some of the underneath tomorrow and I'm workin on getting a video of it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25467133@N02/2398999973/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25467133@N02/2399828156/
08-04-2008 20:03
Scott Carpman
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Normally I sweep up the pit when the bot is on the field..but with that cart passing by twice an hour I didn't have to. Thanks 1626!
08-04-2008 20:22
1t5h1e1o
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about how high off the floor does it hover, and how does it handle bumps?
Oh, and how does it handle?
Awesome cart!!!!! 
08-04-2008 20:50
PMulvey
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Originally Posted by 1t5h1e1o
about how high off the floor does it hover, and how does it handle bumps?
Oh, and how does it handle? Awesome cart!!!!! |
It handles great. Its so easy to push the robot, the only difficult part is turns...you have to like drift around turns, which is kind of fun.
08-04-2008 21:12
1t5h1e1o
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Originally Posted by PMulvey
Bumps are not very bad, the worst bump we ran into was that cover they put over all the wires going to the judges table.
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Originally Posted by PMulvey
It handles great. Its so easy to push the robot, the only difficult part is turns...you have to like drift around turns, which is kind of fun.
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08-04-2008 21:17
Alexa Stott
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Originally Posted by PMulvey
It doesnt hover off the floor very high...its just barely off the floor. Bumps are not very bad, the worst bump we ran into was that cover they put over all the wires going to the judges table.
It handles great. Its so easy to push the robot, the only difficult part is turns...you have to like drift around turns, which is kind of fun. |
Otherwise, that's a pretty sweet cart. Kristian Calhoun and I built a hovercraft in 8th grade for a science project, and that was really fun to ride around on.
08-04-2008 22:25
PMulvey
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We are actually going to be running some tests on it tomorrow so I'll let you know about the incline. Any other tests you guys want me to try on it?
08-04-2008 22:58
David Noll
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That cart was great. It can support an amazing amount of weight (over 250 lbs) but the wheels are their because it can't get over that blue handicap ramp of doom, not that ANY cart gets over that thing well. Nice job guys, you and 421 should get together and conglomerate the fork lift and the hover cart...might be able to play next years game pretty well, lol.
08-04-2008 23:15
Arefin Bari
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Originally Posted by PMulvey
We are actually going to be running some tests on it tomorrow so I'll let you know about the incline. Any other tests you guys want me to try on it?
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09-04-2008 01:45
Mr. Freeman
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Originally Posted by PMulvey
We are actually going to be running some tests on it tomorrow so I'll let you know about the incline. Any other tests you guys want me to try on it?
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Because I didn't say this earlier: The cart looks amazing, great work. Hopefully I can use this to convince my team to finally look into building that motorized one I've always wanted to build.
I don't have any experience using 80/20 Al, but do the fasteners on the bar holding the wheels that join the bar perpendicular to the frame of the cart have any trouble when you put that much of a load on them?
09-04-2008 02:24
David Brinza
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Originally Posted by Vince lau
A team at GTR had a hover cart a few year back, but that thing was loud
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Now I think they're trying to ferry people to Rochester across Lake Ontario on a much larger version of their prototype
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