We started off with $0 got enough to buy around $400 of tools... sold them to the tech department cause we got such a good deal and needed to pay for robot parts plus we must have won quite a few US$100 vex credits by now.(all gone)

we are now mostly using my personal tools, my dad is an gas turbine engineer so has lots of imperial stuff that i have access to which helps. We have access to the tech rooms at school which will be VERY well equipped for the big robots, but at the moment we seem to be working in a business room and out of my garage (i prefer doing a lot of the work at home as i have plenty of machinery and can work without having to notify a teacher all the time).
BTW i seriously recommend buying the rechargeable battery packs they save you a lot of money and work well. remember you will have to get a NZ power supply (but then again if you have anyone like me on your team they will have a shopping bag full of assorted power supplies) also look around at school you would be surprised at what you might have lying around.
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YAY won 6 out of 8 New Zealand VEX competitions!

(and only killed Three servos in the process)

at least we made the semis
Its not a hole its a controlled leak...
Winners of the New Zealand excellence award (yay going to Dallas)