What's Your Ideal Robot Workspace

[Jon Stratis]

I wanted to revive this thread, as we're working with the school right now to define our requirements for a build space, and develop a floor plan.

A few questions for those with more experience:
- How large should the machine shop be? It will be located in a separate room that opens up to the "assembly area". we currently have it spaced at 25'x20'.
- How much room should we have for assembly? This is pretty much where all of the build work will be done (programming, PR, and practice field are separate), and we're currently thinking about 30'30'.
- How much storage should we have in place? We plan to have some material storage available in the machine shop, some more storage (a cabinet or two) in the assembly area, and about 20' of floor to ceiling shelving (3 feet deep, similar to what you see at Home Depot).
- What other groups should we expect to want access to the shop? We immediately thought of the Theater department, since they build sets all year around.

We're all getting pretty excited about the new space, even though it could be a few years before it gets built and finished!