FRC Cribs
 

Here at Team 1687, we've noticed a lack of workshop tour videos. Since our workshop was a lower apartment floor, it's a crib! This is MTV Parody video of Cribs. ::safety:: http://youtu.be/fBDAyymxwBU

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I like the video. How did you get an apartment floor as your shop?

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After a long and hard discussion with my parents, they let us use one of the floors. The video only tours the workshop part, but the entire place consisted of a kitchen (where one of our mentors would cook), a private meeting room, and a sleeping room for all nighters.

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Wow! Your parents are awesome! I love the 'MTV Cribs' style - I will get my team on this immediately...

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Our shared facility @ Edison Tech High School.
Three teams share the space.

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Holy Crap! That is impressive! I am jealous of such a well organized and well kept shop with that arsenal of mills, benders, lathes, and such. Where is this bastion of machinery housed at?

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Edison Tech High School.
They have a ton of this king of equipment laying around the school.n There was a rumor that they were planning on tossing alot of the machinery out but nothing has come of it so hopefully the school has either changed it's mind or the rumor was false.

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I'd think you're safe, especially if the tools are seeing a lot of use. Usually the tools that go are the broken, obsolete, and/or unused ones... I know this as during one of my manufacturing classes back in high school, there was a seldom used mill attachment I wanted to use for a particular project (I needed to mill hex ends on some racing tricycle axles), and what do you know, it had been sent to auction the year before. Figures.

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I gave a tour of our workshop (although it doesn't look like this anymore, we moved some tables around) last year. I actually overuse the phrase "this is where the magic happens" so...I guess it's sorta like Cribs?

Oh gosh, that hair style was just horrendous.

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A few note worthy things about the workshop:

2 weeks before kickoff we were informed we cannot work at the school (due to the time constraints, only 8 hours a week max - not enough)

work benches were built the Thursday and Friday before kickoff

organization plans were made around the same time.

we only really have about 5 students and a handful of mentors who are all in collage

we had to move out right after bag, (the video was shot right before tear down)

we had 24/7 access and some students and mentors really took advantage of that (joe basically lived there)

we only had 3 cad computers (2 thinkpad w530's belonging to joe and i)(and a students desktop crazy gaming thing)

https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/...84976948_o.jpg

some how we built that on less than a 2k budget