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Re: Storage Space & Previous Robots

Our school facility is housed in a technical wing of the high school, and some of our space used to be a "house" for electrical students to wire. The first floor is our tool storage area and the upper area is for more long term storage. Until last year, we had a "graveyard" of robots up in storage. We decided last year to dismantle most of them for parts and extra space, so basically we now have this year's and last year's robots complete, with two more stripped-down frames used as prototyping platforms/driver practice/hassle bots/programming/etc. We had thoughts of hanging the old robots from the ceiling or displaying them as some type of "museum" of history, but that concept never got past the idea stage. In the "old" days, you had to return your control system at the end of the year, and keeping machines wasn't as useful...now that you get to keep the controls every year, it seems more reasonable to keep machines functioning if you have the space.
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