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Storage Space & Previous Robots
Our team has always had a limit of 2 robots and our tools due to lack of storage space. Currently our storage space consists of one ~12ft.X12ft. closet. I would like to keep more robots together (we disassemble them after 2 years), and am also interested in getting large permanent tools (such as a lathe, drill press, or if money is lucky a milling machine) since all those we have are currently brought over by mentors in trucks and have to be taken home every day.
I am wondering how many robots teams actually keep around (maybe there's no good reason for more than 2), and what storage space your team has (if you have more than one storage area, check all you have please). If you know how your team got that space, that information would be greatly appreciated as I want to get more space for our team next year, either somewhere else in the school or off campus. All the previous threads I've seen on this topic are at least a year old, and none really mention how teams obtained the space they have. They also aren't any polls on this subject and I would like some numbers. Thank you for any help you can give! |
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We don't have much room, our robots usually get canibalized the next year, with the only exception being our 2004 #1 seed and regional winner. That and the empty frame of last year's robot are sitting in a hallway. We'll be taking the rest of last year's robot apart after this season.
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All of 111's are at their playing field/workshop except for their 98 robot which is at First HQ.
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we have 3 robots (4 when the new one gets back) and we keep them in the closet that the school considers to be the robotics room
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We have 14 of our 15 robots in our museam (we don't have our original robot. That's in FIRST Place and I doubt they'll give it back)
You can see robots in the background from 95,97, 98 and 2000 in the background. |
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We kept our old robots and our crate parts in an abandoned girls bathroom (sinks, stalls, etc, removed) next to the autoshop. It was pretty funny when you had a bunch of guys who needed parts saying "We're going to the girls bathroom now". :p
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We have all our robots from Occam 2 (2002)-Occam VI (2006) in our shop. Our rookie 'bot, Occam 1 got disassembled for its 80/20 and square extrusion this year.
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All of our robots are stored in the closet the team uses. Bob has been stripped to the frame, which currently hangs from the ceiling. Ockham is mostly together, and Circumstance is in there as well. Once Chomp gets back to the school, we'll have to do a little shuffle to get it all in--but we'll get it.
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I believe that we have 5 robots in working order that have not been disassembled. Our first year robot was cannibalized and dissassembled to create space in our shop and make an electronics board. A few of our robots are enshrined at the headquarters of our founding sponsor, Quest Technologies, with some of our regional trophies. Our other robots are sitting in the school shop, awaiting repairs, refurbishments, and/or paint jobs (since we have switched to steel as our frame of choice).
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It sounds like most teams have their bots around, but they just sit there and look good (which wouldn't be a bad thing). Does anyone use previous years robots still, for demonstrations or for practice for the upcoming year?
How did you guys get enough space to store all the previous robots? Is your team just big enough that there's a gigantic room for robotics, or did you go ask a sponsor or someone for space? The big thing I'm trying to figure out is where to get more space since I think there is very little chance we'll get any more at our school (considering we actually lost space since the golf and soccer stuff moved into our closet and hasn't been moved to the new gym despite our repeated efforts). |
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Doesn't it figure that the year after you disassemble four of your previous robots that you finally get enough storage space to store upwards of ten old robots? Last year we had to disassemble our 2000-2003 robots to save space, and our 2004 robot is practically disassembled. We weren't really going to disassemble our 2004 bot until we took it to a parade and it rained. 'Nuff said. :(
This year we moved to a different high school in our town and we now have a ton of long term storage space. At least we kept all the major mechanisms from our older robots in one piece, as a kind of museum to our robots of yesteryear. Our 2005 robot is in one piece, but not in a runnable condition. It seems as if a lot of parts broke on it during / right after Bash at the Beach. A bit of machining will be needed to make new parts. We have long term plans to try to restore it as a project in the fall of 2006. (This is also my favorite robot from our team, so I hope we don't disassemble it. ;)) |
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We've got five robots stored throughout our school (tomorrow it'll be six - this years robot arrived today). Some are in our small robotics room, the smaller (and earlier) ones are in a display case next to our school's office, and the others are in our advisor's class room. All but two are immobile, I believe :p
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We have room for 1 robot and all of our tools.
Our school is very reluctant to lend us any storage space and refuse to allow us to build a shed on the school grounds like the baseball team did. We borrow about half of a storage closet from the librarians. We have a problem due to the fact that we keep getting more equipment each year from FIRST. This is our second year and already our half of the closet is crammed full and is almost dangerous to walk in (stuff poorly stacked on overhead shelves and whatnot). If we don't have a shed in the next couple years then I think we're going to have to have mentors and robotics students store unneeded stuff at their house. |
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We have our year 1, 3, 4, and 5 robots currently functional and stored @ our school. Our year 2 robot was somewhat cannibalized for parts, and never got put back together. Being that some robots are better "demonstration 'bots" than others, we keep certain robots (#3, #4, and this year #5 as well) in fully-operational condition throughout the year to do press releases and local demos. The other 'bots sit in a storage room above our machine shop and collect dust :(
As for supplies and parts...let's just say they're EVERYWHERE ;) |
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