A picture of the entire rack
http://xs511.xs.to/xs511/07036/Rack3.JPG](http://xs.to)
Check out my rolly chair in front of it. Its the only rolly chair of its type in our room.
Picture of the central disks
http://xs511.xs.to/xs511/07036/Rack2.JPG](http://xs.to)
Yeah, we got a rack made entirely of PVC! How freakin’ awesome is that?! Oh…and some wood, too…but not enough to matter…PVC OWNS!
NICE!! u mind if we come over to use it? although we are in minnesota… yay for rollie chairs and waffles too
Sure, anytime. We would be more than willing to have you practice with us. Drop me a line at [email protected] sometime.
That Rack looks excellent, My team just finished ours and we built it to the plans FIRST released but your pvc version seems just as effective and it looks as if it were easier to build. Where are you going to mount the lights though?
And, just as important, how much does that design cost? Any kind of BOM available?
Don’t forget the stingers!
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Dude… I mean dude, come on. That is so cool. I am so… WOW! Nice job.
Actually, we weren’t planning on mounting the cold cathodes, yet, if at all. We are still working on the stingers, but they aren’t that big of a problem, yet. Our robot currently only has a finished drive train and frame, the rest is still in progress, and should be finished by the end of Week 4. I think the total for the entire rack came to less than $300. I’ll get an exact total if I can. If any of you guys are from Missouri and you want to practice with us, then send me an e-mail at [email protected]. Gotta love the PVC!
Doe you guys have any problems with the rack moving or tipping if a robot bumps it? It seems like the lightweight PVC would be susceptible to sliding (or even tipping) if a robot hit it with enough force…
No, its actually really stable. Its held together by gravity. It is, however, a little lopsided due to the fact that we have abnormal gravity in the Harrisonville, Missouri area. We have hung people on it and its never come close to falling over.
we built ours out of PVC and wood, but we only built 1/4 of it to save time
Really, because ours only took a few hours to construct. We were waiting for some extra parts to come in, so we kept ourselves busy for the night.
what state do you live in again? never heard of MO…
yah we only built so far one column as a reference of the scope. after robot is done and testing begins (or maybe a bit before) we might build a full scale mock up, but considering how little space we have to work at our school, building it would be the easy part, storing it far harder!
Well, we can disassemble ours into fairly small pieces. The horizontal parts are about 3 feet, and the verticals are a little under nine. The horizontals with the 90 degree bends and the horizontals with the t-bends are the only ones that are glued, so it is essentially held together by gravity. And, for Vivek, MO is Missouri. The town I live in is a small town about 45 minutes outside of KC.
