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Originally Posted by MrForbes

We won the Industrial Safety Award sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories at the Phoenix regional, with a very simple, spartan, pit. One shelf unit, one rolling tool box, but we also have a trash can, broom, dustpan, and battery powered vacuum.

I personally like a pit that has room to work on the robot, since that's what the pit is for. The more stuff you have on the floor (shelves, tool boxes, structures, tables, walls etc), the less room there is to work.

I'm probably in the minority here.

This brings up a really good point when it comes to pits-- it really comes down to team/ pit team preference. Do fancy pits look good? Yes (usually). Are the necessary? Heck no! KISS applies to pits as much as it does robots.