This is probably one of my weirder posts…
But we as a team meet in a space where we have to roll our carpet out each meeting. Really not a huge deal…few people worth and its simple
But it makes me wonder, has anyone come up with any sort of motorized/wheel crank carpet systems that they like in the frc community?
Making that task easier would simpify our clean up process drastically
No, but I would love a easy system. We’ve played around with making a carpet rolling robot but mostly as a joke
Not an automatic roller winch, but we roll it up and place it on a cart that was designed for long folding tables. Our workspace isn’t big enough for even a quarter field so we have to move our stuff to the school commons area for drive practice. Field elements and all. (2018 was a p.i.t.a to move the scale between double doors every other day).
We have large diameter PVC pipes that the carpet sections wrap around and then you place them on the cart. Still super heavy but at least on the pipes you can roll it up easier and carry it without it sagging in the middle. If you wanted to motorize the system you could have a pipe with a split end to tuck the start of the carpet into like a C. As the weight of the carpet roll wraps tight it’ll clamp the inside end tightly. The outside ends of the pipe will have to have your sprocket for the input of the crank/winch. But then you have the shaft it gets rolled around handled.
I wonder if one of the pool lane line things could be used/motorized for this purpose.
Manual pool cover wheel thingy. Just chuck a coupla CIMs on it.
Nope. I did one for my basement.
There was a similar thread not long ago:
Some of the interesting answers:
Easy
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