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Where do you build YOUR robot?
AKA your HQ, your building location, your workshop.
We built our robot in a Votech school near us. |
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We build ours in a part of an empty warehouse at a business called World Water. We have 3 milling machines and two lathes at our disposal.
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We use our Engieering Technology machine shop, welding area, and class room to build our robot, and any other parts we can't manufacture ourselves we send it down the road to BAE Systems machine shop. We have BAE as a sponsor and have 3 mentors that work there.
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We make our bot in the Drafting/Electronics room of our HS. It is the second floor of what used to be a gym. Our school has no milling tools other than generic drill presses, chop saws, and welders (Thus the use of the kitbot this year). All of those tools are also a good 5-minute walk from the classroom we build in.
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Room 100C, Irmo High School Annex.
Or, for anyone who that doesn't make sense for, the engineering classroom. It's a big classroom, but it's still a classroom. Still, we get the job done in there (or, for what 1293 has in store, in the big opening by the stairs in the building). |
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We build in our school's metal shop, and program in our own little room (and i mean little)...if we can't fabricate something, our sopnsors are kind enough to do it for us! :)
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We do our work in our drama room and our own personal shop which is attached to it. Why the drama room? A) its pretty big
b)It used to be the auto-shop c)our shop is attached to it :p |
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anyways like he said. AND sometimes we use DAVE'S house too (thats always fun :) ) |
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At our school, they closed the metal shop, but they left a few machines in the back of the room (the front part of which they turned into a physics classroom). However, the buildings & grounds crew dont have much sympathy for us staying late so we usually end up bringing parts and pieces home for some late night machining at my house. Having a lathe and a Bridgeport in my garage makes things so much easier :D . And as for the field, we usually try to squeeze that into the woodshop, which is another challenge all in itsself.
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My team, 399, uses the schools shop and the engineering room. We have minimal tools like: drill press, band saw, sander, and the ability to buck rivets aka aircraft type riveting. Our machinist sponsor make critical parts for us and we have a parent who does all of our welding for us.
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We use several rooms and a hallway at our school. We use the woodshop, metalshop, electronics room, cafeteria, and we could have a table set up anywhere in the hallway between these rooms.
If the school is closed for any reason we do some work at one of our sponsors shops. |
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Fortunately enough for us X-CATS Xerox has been leasing a warehouse site with our own machine shop and computer room and meeting place for the last 9 years since Wilson has no Technology department/space/ nor tools.
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This is a tad bit complicated:
th bot is built at rockville high school, in the machine shop/janitor's closet, it's not open to other students and is 1/2 and 1/2, many times we use tables in the wood shop, just so we can have more room. The famous red base is built at the high school, the most of the parts are made by J&P Fabrications, a fantastic company that sponsors us through thier services and parts they give us, while other parts at built at places like UTRC, Trumpf (a company one of our engineers works at) and another one of our engineer's garage/shop but it's all assembled at the high school, unless school will be closed, then we move to the engineer's garage/shop BUT our facility, with the field, meeting room, etc that we invite other teams to (if you're in CT and want to come PM me) is in East Hartford. We have plenty of stuff there, but we're pretty spread out. |
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We use our teachers barn. Yup thats right in a barn. It has a full woodshop in it and lots of space to work. Plus how many people have a stereo system blasting rap or anything we want. Hehe so much fun.
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Team 662, Rocky Mountain robotics is building our robot in an empty store at the local mall, Chapel Hills Mall. We are comprised of high school students from 4 different high schools in our school district. The population is booming here and none of our schools have enough room for our team. This is our 5th year and our 4th build location. In the past we have been in an electrical contractors warehouse, a three car garage and an empty office building. The best thing about building in the mall this year is it gives us an opportunity to publicize our team and FIRST robotics. This thread shows a picture of the store front where we have a display. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=34484
The shop is behind the store front which means that when we are making noise with power tools, it doesn't disturb the shoppers. Some times the puppies in the pet store next door are louder than we are. |
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We use our schools auto shop since the instructor is very accomodating and loves to help the team. We sneak over to the machine shop as needed to do work. We really need our own classroom becuase its a pain to clean up every night (we love friday nights where we can leave a huge mess for when we come to work on sat.)
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We use a normal room at our school. There is a class there though so we get half of the room to store our robot and hand tools and the teacher gets the other half for his desks and stuff. There is a small room in the back where we have a basic drill press, band saw, chop saw and welder. We are trying to get 3 phase power to that room so we cand get a mill and lathe.
After school, when we meet, we take over the teacher's half of the room and then clean it up when we leave. After we've met for a whole weekend, it takes a while to clean up that half of the room :D . |
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Being a college sponsored team, we are slightly different than most. We build ours in one of the ME labs here at WPI, its labeled the "Project Lab". It has a shop attached to it with 2 lathes, 2 mills, a CNC mini-mill (which we never use) and 2 drill presses. We share it with the FSAE racecar team and the E-Plane project.
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It is nice to see that we "shop" teachers are finally getting some good press. I know of several schools in Arizona that use the Industrial Technology Labs to build their robots.
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We build our robot in our schools manufacturing lab. It is a very good place to build at. We have the computer lab, with 30 or so computers running Inventor, right outside the door into the manufacturing lab we have a full size playing field and on the other side is all of our equipment. We use 3 mills, 4 or 5 lathes, 2 TIG welders, and all sorts of other tools. So far this year, we haven't had any parts made outside of our lab.
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After looking at the poll results, I just had to vote since the indication was that no team built in a team members garage. Well, the only build shop that our team has ever known in our three year existence, "Robot Central" is my garage. Actually half of the garage as the other half has an old Mustang in it for later.
It is a bit cramped at times, though we can work as long as we like. Last Saturday, or was it Sunday morning, we just could not use the loud tools at 2AM... Bill Woolley Team 1079 Mentor and dad of two team members I'll sleep next month |
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We have a few rooms we work in.
First and the most used room is the Advisor's classroom. His room is one of the larger of the science classrooms in our school and it has the proper measures to take care of fire problems or anything like that. Second most used room for robo-construction is the hallway right outside the science classrooms. Why? Because it's there, d'uh :D We use another science room to do somt testing and smaller jobs in, but that room is mainly for business work and chairman's award writing, so we don't do much loud stuff in there. |
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Yeah, we have been there too. Fortunately, we have not had to build the entire robot there for all season, but considerable portions have been moved back and forth between the shop at the school and the shop at my house (first in the garage, but thankfully indoors as of this year!) -dave |
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We build the Friarbot in a large cubicle located on the warehouse floor of CTDI, our primary sponsor.
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I think it depends mostly on a team's luck, though. Our school has no vacant and usable rooms. There's one under our courtyard (it actually used to be a firing range) but it's literally swamped with plants growing in there. There's also one below the auditorium but that has no electricity. However, if a team can net enough money from sponsors I guess they can rent space from local unused warehouses (which our community has none). |
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we have a rather random location: the convent basement. It is a bit odd (esp. for new members), but we suprisingly have lots of space, except for the fact that the ceilings are kind of low :(
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We use a corner of a physics classroom and the wood shop to build our robot. We are very limited with space and tools but every year we manage.
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umm we build it right outside a math classroom in our school...outside because theres not enough room inside....and then it rains and everything gets very bad.
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We have a small room about the size of an office. We test run in a hall. When it is time to test on carpet, we go in a math room after school and take all the desks out and return them when we are finished.
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We build our bot in a church (The Good Shepard) basement wood shop. We had to bring in a band saw and belt sander. We also had to bring in a kerosene heater.
Luckily one of our mentors has a partial warehouse where we can set up part of the playing field. Wayne Doenges CAD Mentor |
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We use what was a metal shop at one point. But our school ended that class a long time ago and left use 3 lathes, 2 drill presses, a grinder, lots of things to bend and cut metal and lots and lots of steel plus a welder. It works out pretty well and when we need more room we open the room across the hall - which is a tech classroom (used for silk screen printing and a few other classes). Next door to use is the auto shop which has some tools that we use (mostly the bearing press). Next we just gotta work on getting a milling machine. ;)
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We have a Robotics class room that's a normal, robotics class room during the school day. Then after school it turns into one of the rooms we use for first. We have a wood shop for end effecters, Robotics room for electrical and 3dsmax, Accounting computer room for design team, and Metal shop for drive train. Programmers are in the hallway running the robot or in the design room. We have a pretty good set up :cool:
We also goto CCM, county college or morris to use more advanced machines we dont have access to at our school. |
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We work in the garage of one of our mentors, and in the physics classroom.
This would be very bad except for two things: 1) The garage is a six car garage which belongs to a mentor who is a retired machinist and has a CNC mill, CNC lathe, a regular mill and two regular lathes + presses, welding, etc. 2) As we go to a Jesuit High School, there is a Jesuit community on campus, so there is a full kitchen at our disposal, we can stay till two in the morning (we just have to wake up our principle to let us out), and if things get really bad, we have easy access to the chapel ;) |
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We do all of our work in our schools library hahaha. Yes, thats right, that includes sawing, metal cutting, drill pressing, and all the building. We kinda just took over one of the study rooms and called it our own. Oh well, we can do whatever we want.
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And you're librarian has not commited mass murder with said sawing, metal cutting and drill pressing tools?
I love our librarian, but the worst version of hell would seem nice compared to what would happen if we so much a brought a drill into the library |
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We use to build in Johnson and Johnson itself... We even got our own room... But things became problems and they couldn't afford to have accidents so we are now in our mentor's classroom... A lot more hands on for the students and its awesome because we go down during studies to build... WOOT!!!
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We work mostly in the technology/CAD shop in the basement of the school. The teacher who started the club is also the CAD/CISCO/Tech. teacher, so it worked out nicely. :) We also have the fortune to have both the metal and wood shop teachers interested in our 'bot, so we basically have free reign of those three shops and the hallway between. Though the woodshop is across the street, so it's more like the hallway and the parking lot in between. :D
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we build ours at one of 2 places, both are mentors garages...
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Team 648 is split between two locations. We build the robot at the build center at one of our main sponsor's shops and we have a media center in a grade school room.
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My team is a conjunction of Albany High School and Rensselaer Polytechnic institute. Since RPI has more appropriate facilities, we build our bot in the Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory (AML) at RPI. The shop has such amenities (spelling?) as a CNC machine, Waterjet machine, 10 ton crane, forms of rapid prototyping that i am not completely familiar with, and all of the machines you could imagine to fabricate parts for a robot (Except for a metal break!). We also have several other machine shops on campus where so we can break up tedius processes (Such as drilling hundreds of holes through the frame pieces of the bot) onto several machines, given that there is enough man(or woman)power to operate them. Overall, the site is extremely easy to utilize.
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I was interested to see there are a few teams who practice bi location. At this point, I think we're the only tri locators: a participating high school tech shop, our local Career Technology School, and a local former Ames Dept. Store. We travel from location to location, depending on day of the week and/or time of day.
The constraint that makes stuff really interesting is that there are multiple times that we cannot get into one or the other of the first two sites. If we forgot something, we're out of luck till we can get in! :rolleyes: It's been a challenging year...but we do have a bot...almost! :D |
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We use what used to be the wood shop in our school. It is a big room but half of it was turned into a classroom and the other half is our shop. Its big enough for what we use it for. We also use the machines in the metal shop if we need to because the shop teacher is our sponsor.
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I think we have the oddest build area. We build in the basement machine shop of an old steam power plant. (It still works, but only occasionally and only at the other end fromus.) Usually it's nice. The problems occur when the building is used for its other purpose: movie or TV set. Then we have to work at somrone's house for a few days. Last year that happened on the Saturday before ship. A week or two ago, we had to leave due to filming, but only for two nights, and we were building at one of our sponsor shops.
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We build our robot in the basement of the convent next to the school...the nuns don't like it very much when we wake them up at 2 AM :p
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we build ours out at Nasa. They are a big big help.
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That seems a lot spoilled. Lucky little poeple. Well we build ours at an ex-members dad's workshop garage at what we call the rec center. Our reccenter is down the street about like 3-5 blocks. Luckily we have a cnc-mill or a mill whats the dif? A lathe, Setup of Ryobi tools usually for wood work drill press, Belt sander/ disc sander, bench grinder, scroll saw, and a table saw. ALso arbor press and ac + gas welding. And as A plus the center its self has rock walls 4 comps. bball/olleyball. And an 81" tv with all the +'s.
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we build in the airplane hanger but there is a small addition being built for the robotics shop.
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first few weeks, we built at school, seeing as were a technology school we have lots of tools, adn a huge back store room. For the past 3 weeks weve been working in a members garage, cause his dad is an engineer and a mechanic, we have access to everything that we need. Oh, and tonight it was at another house, being tested and programmed
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