Where do you build YOUR robot?

[Fixen]

AKA your HQ, your building location, your workshop.

We built our robot in a Votech school near us.

[Spikey]

We build ours in a part of an empty warehouse at a business called World Water. We have 3 milling machines and two lathes at our disposal.

[Bcahn836]

We use our Engieering Technology machine shop, welding area, and class room to build our robot, and any other parts we can't manufacture ourselves we send it down the road to BAE Systems machine shop. We have BAE as a sponsor and have 3 mentors that work there.

[Marinesniper77]

We make our bot in the Drafting/Electronics room of our HS. It is the second floor of what used to be a gym. Our school has no milling tools other than generic drill presses, chop saws, and welders (Thus the use of the kitbot this year). All of those tools are also a good 5-minute walk from the classroom we build in.
Needless to say our bot is made out of easy to use parts and connections.

[Billfred]

Room 100C, Irmo High School Annex.

Or, for anyone who that doesn't make sense for, the engineering classroom. It's a big classroom, but it's still a classroom. Still, we get the job done in there (or, for what 1293 has in store, in the big opening by the stairs in the building).

[Rohan_DHS]

We build in our school's metal shop, and program in our own little room (and i mean little)...if we can't fabricate something, our sopnsors are kind enough to do it for us!

[Lil' Lavery]

We do our work in our drama room and our own personal shop which is attached to it. Why the drama room? A) its pretty big
b)It used to be the auto-shop
c)our shop is attached to it

[george56]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

We do our work in our drama room and our own personal shop which is attached to it. Why the drama room? A) its pretty big
b)It used to be the auto-shop
c)our shop is attached to it

ARGH! lavery i was just about to post that!

anyways like he said.

AND sometimes we use DAVE'S house too (thats always fun )

[Smrtman5]

At our school, they closed the metal shop, but they left a few machines in the back of the room (the front part of which they turned into a physics classroom). However, the buildings & grounds crew dont have much sympathy for us staying late so we usually end up bringing parts and pieces home for some late night machining at my house. Having a lathe and a Bridgeport in my garage makes things so much easier . And as for the field, we usually try to squeeze that into the woodshop, which is another challenge all in itsself.

[RoboCat05]

My team, 399, uses the schools shop and the engineering room. We have minimal tools like: drill press, band saw, sander, and the ability to buck rivets aka aircraft type riveting. Our machinist sponsor make critical parts for us and we have a parent who does all of our welding for us.

[Jay H 237]

We use several rooms and a hallway at our school. We use the woodshop, metalshop, electronics room, cafeteria, and we could have a table set up anywhere in the hallway between these rooms.
If the school is closed for any reason we do some work at one of our sponsors shops.

[Ellery]

Fortunately enough for us X-CATS Xerox has been leasing a warehouse site with our own machine shop and computer room and meeting place for the last 9 years since Wilson has no Technology department/space/ nor tools.

[Lisa Rodriguez]

This is a tad bit complicated:
th bot is built at rockville high school, in the machine shop/janitor's closet, it's not open to other students and is 1/2 and 1/2, many times we use tables in the wood shop, just so we can have more room.
The famous red base is built at the high school, the most of the parts are made by J&P Fabrications, a fantastic company that sponsors us through thier services and parts they give us, while other parts at built at places like UTRC, Trumpf (a company one of our engineers works at) and another one of our engineer's garage/shop
but it's all assembled at the high school, unless school will be closed, then we move to the engineer's garage/shop

BUT our facility, with the field, meeting room, etc that we invite other teams to (if you're in CT and want to come PM me) is in East Hartford. We have plenty of stuff there, but we're pretty spread out.

[Bentow]

We use our teachers barn. Yup thats right in a barn. It has a full woodshop in it and lots of space to work. Plus how many people have a stereo system blasting rap or anything we want. Hehe so much fun.

[gburlison]

Team 662, Rocky Mountain robotics is building our robot in an empty store at the local mall, Chapel Hills Mall. We are comprised of high school students from 4 different high schools in our school district. The population is booming here and none of our schools have enough room for our team. This is our 5th year and our 4th build location. In the past we have been in an electrical contractors warehouse, a three car garage and an empty office building. The best thing about building in the mall this year is it gives us an opportunity to publicize our team and FIRST robotics. This thread shows a picture of the store front where we have a display. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=34484

The shop is behind the store front which means that when we are making noise with power tools, it doesn't disturb the shoppers. Some times the puppies in the pet store next door are louder than we are.