What is in you dream FIRST robotics team shop?

[Joe G.]

-CNC Mill, Lathe, Pipebender
-Metalcutting bandsaw, chopsaw, etc.
-arbor press
-access 24/7
-Computers
-welder
-food
-well equipped storage area

-a robotic system that can automatically fetch any raw part, from a 8-32 nut to a 8 foot length of 80/20, with a push of a button

-A largish purple button, with a nice satisfying click to it, that symeltaneously builds a 1114-quality robot in 10 minutes, and installs all the fun, knowledge, and lack of sleep that a FIRST season generates in all team members, without the...actual lack of sleep.

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by rocketperson44

-a robotic system that can automatically fetch any raw part, from a 8-32 nut to a 8 foot length of 80/20, with a push of a button

We're hoping for a few freshmen this coming year!

[takeegan]

plasma cutter (it sounds cool) and a teleporter (again it'd just be cool) and a dr. pepper fountain... oh and a welder to keep the mentors happy

[roboticWanderor]

A GTAW (get it right fools)
CNC mill with a 38 x 28 or larger cutting area
hex broaches

more space to store old robots!

[IKE]

I have really enjoyed the "dream" facilities everyone is posting. That being said a friend and I built a racecar (scratch built not conversion) with a 60 year old mill, a 90+ year old lathe (6 speed belt drive Logan), and a $500 welder.
The Bees currently enjoy a cramped space with salvaged machines (the were all set to be scrapped before we "saved" them). Personally I really enjoy our shop and would only get rid of the "red menace" which is a band saw that has been brought back from the dead too many times. I personally believe it is a Zombie Bandsaw thirsty for blood. j/k
More important than fancy machinery are people that know the basics. While really cool parts are built by fancy machines, Great robots are built by great people.
BTW I think Team 45 is cloning Andy. Anybody who has pitted next to them should agree that they are a first class students running a first class team. As a mentor I was very inspired to see them in action.

[RoboMaster]

A whole wall dedicated to haning bags of every imaginable color, size, use, tecture, personalized, and uniqness of...

Zip ties!

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by RoboMaster

A whole wall dedicated to haning bags of every imaginable color, size, use, tecture, personalized, and uniqness of...

Zip ties!

Hahaha. Maybe just half of a wall for us though.


Somehow we've all missed one of the more important things: good speakers and music!

I also seem to have forgotten the important high powered shop vac with a multitude of attachments for getting in the knick-knacks our shop machines.

[Nica F.]

Our shop had 3 CNC's and my favorite of all was our Haas CNC lathe SL-10. As long as you have one of those babies for me to use, i'll be happy

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by squirrel

We're hoping for a few freshmen this coming year!

us too, but we are hoping for five.

[octothorpe]

...what everybody else said (especially Mika about the recruits) and also:

- Hanging electrical power supplies that
A) do not have blown fuses, because they
B) do not have fuses that blow at what seems to be anything >5 amps current draw

They tell us that the power blocks were built with powering 1-amp portable microscopes in mind. Sigh.