Shipping Team

The shipping teams job is simple. Create a robust packing system that will allow the robot to be shipped 2000 miles, get bounced around by forklifts in trucks, get jarred by potholes in the road, reslammed by forklifts getting unloaded and dropped that all important 12 to the floor at the very end.

In the past our crates have done a super job, these are pictures from DEWBOT V being shipped.

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  Front and Side with "Hope"

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  Front and Side with "We can Fix that!"

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  Back - hand prints of the team members and their names

Some teams have built crates that the robot is removed and the crate is transformed to a storage and work area. This frees up space in the pit.

This crate has shelves to hold all the tools and an extra deep shelf that sticks out to create a sturdy workbench. One of the plans for the 2009 Fall Season is to construct a multi talented crate.

Well maybe the job isn't that simple, the final design of the robot isn't complete until late in the build cycle, leaving about two weeks to build the crate. Historically the robot gets loaded into the crate at about 2AM. In February. Outside. So the big challenge is build the box in the dark, cold night when everyone is very tired.

One of the design goals is that the new crate will be reusable for a number of years.