how messy

[f22flyboy]

some pics so you will realize how bad it can get






I like the smiley face

[papa smurf]

nice pics thats how our room was two weeks after the kick off.ours got worse but we knew where everything was and cleaning up for two hours every day just wastes time that could be used making something (drilling,milling, etc.).building a robot in six weeks doesn't give time to clean up every day it could be the difference between finishing on time and not finishing.when you have one tool among twenty people its hard to keep tools in their place.I think that if you clean up at the end off the day after you've been trying to work out a problem for hours and then come back the next day it like cuts your train of thought.well that me i don't know about everybody else.

[Rickertsen2]

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Originally posted by RobDeCotiis
we used our school's tech lab to build our bot.. worse than the messiness is when someone would clean up... when it was a disaster area, the builders knew where all the tools were.. "oh, the 1/4 20 tap is on the table over here, the 1/8" hex key i remember i sat it down on the drill press before,...."
then someone would clean and we'd be like "[expletive deleted], i left the [expletive deleted] tap on the table over there and someone moved it!" or "who took the 1/8" hex? i left it on the drill press, where the hell is it?!", only to find out that it's in our tool cart... :-/ looking for newly organized tools cost us hours of build time..
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Exactly the same with us. We try to maintain "orderly messiness," meaning it's a mess, but at least 85% of the student members know where everything is within the mess. Unfortunately, some of the adults don't agree with this philosophy, and clean up behind the student's backs. I lost count of the amount of time spent trying to find papers with schematics, dimensions, pinouts, software code, etc. when most students knew it should have been in a specific pile of stuff. The adults, of course, merely say "what? we were just trying to make the place look nice." Yeah, it may look nice, but it's impossible to find anything =P

Sounds very familiar. When people clean up we lose stuff.

[Katy]

you guys that isn't messy! That's how it looks like after you clean it up right...seriously it has to be...

Our room wasn't too messy...maybe a tad more than those pictures showed yours. It was really annoying when the Al shavings started spilling off the table and on to the floor because it was easy to slip a little on them but other than that it wasn't too bad. The computers we got donated actually are the biggest problem as far as taking up space and then sometimes you would have to fish around for a tool but really it wasn't that bad. I personally didn't feel comfortable eating off the floor but some of the other people on the team did.

There was one area that was a little messy though, we named it "the closet of unspeakable horrors" because it is so full of stuff once you go in you might not find your way out again. Half of it is a little area tucked under the stairway to the second floor of the building and then a small area underneath what I am guessing is the landing for the upstairs so you can imagine... I'll bring you some pictures soon if I can.

[tatsak42]

Pretty bad... We had a room that was eh, i can't apporximate well... 10 feet wide? and like, the length of a normal room... so we had a long skinny room. and a robot that cut off halves of the room, computers and desks that took up even more space, people sitting in chairs... 3 people standing in a circle (triangle), in the room blocked traffic... and we had piles of stuff everywhere. We cleaned up the last day though, it looks normal again .

Horrible horrible room for robotics... >_<

[srjjs]

You have a bunch of plastic bins now, so how about using them to organize your shops?

[Kevin A]

Our room seamed to be reasonable during the day, as there are 2 classes taught in there, but as the nites went on stuff seemed to stack up around me. We have a large room, but half is full of computers dedicated to comp. hardware, so we couldnt take it over. We also have a car parked in our room, so that took up a lot of space. On the nites we stayed late, i found myself sitting indian style around the robot working on it, and when it became clean up time i was absolutely surrounded by piles of who knows what. But we cleaned up every nite and kept it perty clean, until the last week, when mayham broke out.