Where do you build?
 

We want to know where all you people build your robots at. Not the building or city, i mean "someone's garage", "school workshop", "back room of our main sponsor's building", etc...

also, do you have to share you space with another group/class/department/etc.

Our team wants to know, because we work in the back room of a visteon building, but we have to share it with one of the departments. We want to move to a space of our own, but we need to know what other teams have in order to make a formal proposal.

You don't have to post a picture or anything, just tell us where you build, please.

Our team meets in the back of a warehouse.

Team 294 works at Redondo Union High School's "auto shop". It is called that because there used to be an auto shop class there, but it was closed down due to liability issues. Luckily we are still there :-)

We share the auto shop with school maitenance and storage. I think they are moving out, though.

where we work
 

team 108 works at the motorola plant in platation. this year we had our own shop. but there always moving departments all over the place so who knows where will be next year:confused:

We are everywhere
 

(a) Our primary build location was a 3 car garage.
(b) One of our mentors has a lathe and mill in his shop, so we did all the machine work there.
(c) A sponsor had an empty office building that they are trying to sell, but they let us assemble the playing field there.
(d) The animators and web site development was done in a school computer lab.

Needless to say, coordination of effort was a problem. We probably lost a week of testing and driver training because of this.

We build at "The Site" which is located next to an old Xeorx warehouse and is inside a secured location attached to another business with adequate space to do all of our work.

Re: Where do you build?
 

Yea There, we like to call it FIRST land

We have a very large classroom at school that we can use afterschool and on weekends but we cannot leave anything out in it because it is used for a class too. We have a walk-in clost size shop room sith a grinder and drill press and we keep stuff in there. We have another room that is about 12x12 where we keep all our robots and stuff. These two rooms are sub rooms in the big classrom.

We also have a very large fully equipped machine shop available for our use at the local college. 2 CNC mills, a CNC lathe, 6 brirdgeport manual mills, 6 manual lathes, vertical bandsaw, horizontal bandsaw, surface grinder, bench grinders, and chop saws.

157 is from a tech school so we have everything we need in house, wood shop, machine shop, electronics, anything. Really nice to have it right there when you need it.

Team #1020 works in a teacher's lounge after regular school hours are over. :rolleyes:

Team 68.
 

Truck Town THunder, team 68, Proudlly works in GM's truck mockup section of GM Truck in Pontiac Michigan. We have a full sized field, as well as a machine shop, and access to all sorts of materials. We work alongside GM employees, and get to see newer cars (04', 05', 06', 07' ect..) before they come out. I'm liking the H3!!!!

We work in a classroom and our wood shop. We have access to a metal band saw, mitre saw, table saw, grinder, 2 drill presses, a broken manual lathe, and nothing else. We are hoping to get GM or a machine Shop to sponsor us next year, we really need access to a CNC Vertical Mill. We have to clean up everyday as our rooms are used by classes.

We got the pleasure
 

One of our mentor engineers actually worked at sun microsystems 3 blocks away and they had a machine shop with everything including a CNC, huge punchers, mills, lathes... that was never used, at least everything looked brand new. This was actuallly kinda a consequence, since we had a really good machine shop, we had the habit of fabricating custom parts for everything and we would find out at competition that when those parts break or get stripped you can't just go get one from small parts. Instead we had to run out to USC at So cal in order to fabricate new parts.

After fabricating all the parts, we would bring it back to our mentors classroom, he had one of those rooms between two classrooms where we could store stuff, and then we assembled everything after school.

Oh yeah, the machine shop was equipped with really nice welding machines and we were able to weld aluminum, which was really hard.

Oh yeah, and we have our local college's welding shop and welders available to us.

We had been using 1/3 of auto shop that had been unused except by maintenance for years (trucks and storage)

our 1/3

back tool cage before being "done" by us

their 2/3's

and only since going year-round since spring 2002 we cleaned it up (years of filth, oil, grime, many years old auto parts and leftover formulas)

1

and decorated for ourselves...

1

2

toolcage got more cupboards that had to be cleaned out

4

We were having to spread out when we were there for our

open house

and then having to move everything back to our 1/3 at the end of the day.

However we recently got some

great news