[Billfred]

1293 has a closet, 145" by 95". (It's too early in the morning to do any conversions on that.) Luckily, with the exception of a router hanging on the wall, it's all ours. It's big enough to hold all our stuff (Ockham, the remainders of Bob and practice robot Hockham, four KOP bins, a recycling robot that I keep forgetting to get pictures of, and plenty of tools and other things).

When we got the space, it came with a lot of junk left behind. Fasteners that weighed a pound a piece, old busted computer equipment, and then stuff folks brought in our rookie year but never got used. So during these past few weeks we've been going through everything, throwing away or recycling old junk (those large fasteners, scrapped prototype units from Ockham's lift mechanism, pretty much all of Bob except the frame), giving some things to the science team at Irmo (some small non-kit motors someone brought in our rookie year), and organizing and inventorying everything else, especially tools. (Until yesterday, I couldn't have told you that 1293 had three hacksaws, two claw hammers, and a ball peen hammer in that room.)

So I guess that's my advice for anyone: claim a space, any space (so long as your robot(s) will fit in it), and make it yours. If you have to throw out things and sledgehammer away shelves, do it. (Just make sure you're wearing safety glasses when sledgehammering.)