Where do you build YOUR robot?

[DarkJedi613]

We use what was a metal shop at one point. But our school ended that class a long time ago and left use 3 lathes, 2 drill presses, a grinder, lots of things to bend and cut metal and lots and lots of steel plus a welder. It works out pretty well and when we need more room we open the room across the hall - which is a tech classroom (used for silk screen printing and a few other classes). Next door to use is the auto shop which has some tools that we use (mostly the bearing press). Next we just gotta work on getting a milling machine.

[CatchRothy22]

We have a Robotics class room that's a normal, robotics class room during the school day. Then after school it turns into one of the rooms we use for first. We have a wood shop for end effecters, Robotics room for electrical and 3dsmax, Accounting computer room for design team, and Metal shop for drive train. Programmers are in the hallway running the robot or in the design room. We have a pretty good set up

We also goto CCM, county college or morris to use more advanced machines we dont have access to at our school.

[CJO]

We work in the garage of one of our mentors, and in the physics classroom.

This would be very bad except for two things:
1) The garage is a six car garage which belongs to a mentor who is a retired machinist and has a CNC mill, CNC lathe, a regular mill and two regular lathes + presses, welding, etc.

2) As we go to a Jesuit High School, there is a Jesuit community on campus, so there is a full kitchen at our disposal, we can stay till two in the morning (we just have to wake up our principle to let us out), and if things get really bad, we have easy access to the chapel

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by 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.

Made a website showing off our newly refurbished site (thanks mostly to Ellery) in a class for RIT last year. It's been "broken in" by our students during the build season. It looks quite weathered now.

[haverfordfords]

We do all of our work in our schools library hahaha. Yes, thats right, that includes sawing, metal cutting, drill pressing, and all the building. We kinda just took over one of the study rooms and called it our own. Oh well, we can do whatever we want.

[CJO]

And you're librarian has not commited mass murder with said sawing, metal cutting and drill pressing tools?

I love our librarian, but the worst version of hell would seem nice compared to what would happen if we so much a brought a drill into the library

[haverfordfords]

Originally Posted by CJO

And you're librarian has not commited mass murder with said sawing, metal cutting and drill pressing tools?

I love our librarian, but the worst version of hell would seem nice compared to what would happen if we so much a brought a drill into the library

Hahahaha, I don't think they like us that much, but we have a space problem at our school, so its the only good place on campus. All of our meetings are after school anyway so the library is closed, so its not too big of a deal.

[Pin Man]

We use to build in Johnson and Johnson itself... We even got our own room... But things became problems and they couldn't afford to have accidents so we are now in our mentor's classroom... A lot more hands on for the students and its awesome because we go down during studies to build... WOOT!!!

[katkana]

We work mostly in the technology/CAD shop in the basement of the school. The teacher who started the club is also the CAD/CISCO/Tech. teacher, so it worked out nicely. We also have the fortune to have both the metal and wood shop teachers interested in our 'bot, so we basically have free reign of those three shops and the hallway between. Though the woodshop is across the street, so it's more like the hallway and the parking lot in between.

[Denman]

we build ours at one of 2 places, both are mentors garages...

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Team 648 is split between two locations. We build the robot at the build center at one of our main sponsor's shops and we have a media center in a grade school room.

[Dan-o]

My team is a conjunction of Albany High School and Rensselaer Polytechnic institute. Since RPI has more appropriate facilities, we build our bot in the Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory (AML) at RPI. The shop has such amenities (spelling?) as a CNC machine, Waterjet machine, 10 ton crane, forms of rapid prototyping that i am not completely familiar with, and all of the machines you could imagine to fabricate parts for a robot (Except for a metal break!). We also have several other machine shops on campus where so we can break up tedius processes (Such as drilling hundreds of holes through the frame pieces of the bot) onto several machines, given that there is enough man(or woman)power to operate them. Overall, the site is extremely easy to utilize.

[JudyVandy]

I was interested to see there are a few teams who practice bi location. At this point, I think we're the only tri locators: a participating high school tech shop, our local Career Technology School, and a local former Ames Dept. Store. We travel from location to location, depending on day of the week and/or time of day.

The constraint that makes stuff really interesting is that there are multiple times that we cannot get into one or the other of the first two sites. If we forgot something, we're out of luck till we can get in! It's been a challenging year...but we do have a bot...almost!

[Fixen]

Originally Posted by CJO

And you're librarian has not commited mass murder with said sawing, metal cutting and drill pressing tools?

I love our librarian, but the worst version of hell would seem nice compared to what would happen if we so much a brought a drill into the library

When our librarian would scream if any student has anything that makes sound out, bringing a drill into our library would be instant suicide. I bet she has a shotgun somewhere in her desk.

[Ali Ahmed]

We use what used to be the wood shop in our school. It is a big room but half of it was turned into a classroom and the other half is our shop. Its big enough for what we use it for. We also use the machines in the metal shop if we need to because the shop teacher is our sponsor.