Who Builds your teams Robot?

[PsychoPhil]

Our robot has been built by us students for te most parts:

We brainstormed all together, selected the ideas we wanted to realize and our engineer came up with the concepts for the most part, we gave him our input and he set us up at the machines to build the individual parts. ("Okay, look here, do this and this, till you're down to 1.05 inches. Now I'm gonna leave you alone and you do it. Just bring it over when you're done.")
It was so nice, we machined all the parst ourselves after he showed us individually how to. It was a big learning-experience for all of us. In the end Mike M. (our engineer) could describe us the measurements of a piece of metal that he wanted and we machined it all by ourselves without further instructions.
And we had a real nice machine shop. We built the robot at Advanced Animations in Stockbridge, Vermont.

Advanced Animations built the Terminator-robots for the Universal-Studios in Florida and while we where there they were just building a 3-story-tall clock tower for FAO Schwarz. Their machine shop is SOOOOOOOOOOO nice, unbelievable.