Where do you build YOUR robot?

[KTorak]

We use our schools auto shop since the instructor is very accomodating and loves to help the team. We sneak over to the machine shop as needed to do work. We really need our own classroom becuase its a pain to clean up every night (we love friday nights where we can leave a huge mess for when we come to work on sat.)

[Michael Corsetto]

We use a normal room at our school. There is a class there though so we get half of the room to store our robot and hand tools and the teacher gets the other half for his desks and stuff. There is a small room in the back where we have a basic drill press, band saw, chop saw and welder. We are trying to get 3 phase power to that room so we cand get a mill and lathe.

After school, when we meet, we take over the teacher's half of the room and then clean it up when we leave. After we've met for a whole weekend, it takes a while to clean up that half of the room .

[BrianBSL]

Being a college sponsored team, we are slightly different than most. We build ours in one of the ME labs here at WPI, its labeled the "Project Lab". It has a shop attached to it with 2 lathes, 2 mills, a CNC mini-mill (which we never use) and 2 drill presses. We share it with the FSAE racecar team and the E-Plane project.

[Ken Loyd]

It is nice to see that we "shop" teachers are finally getting some good press. I know of several schools in Arizona that use the Industrial Technology Labs to build their robots.

Ken

[bradford86]

We build our robot in our schools manufacturing lab. It is a very good place to build at. We have the computer lab, with 30 or so computers running Inventor, right outside the door into the manufacturing lab we have a full size playing field and on the other side is all of our equipment. We use 3 mills, 4 or 5 lathes, 2 TIG welders, and all sorts of other tools. So far this year, we haven't had any parts made outside of our lab.

[YLDNWLY]

After looking at the poll results, I just had to vote since the indication was that no team built in a team members garage. Well, the only build shop that our team has ever known in our three year existence, "Robot Central" is my garage. Actually half of the garage as the other half has an old Mustang in it for later.

It is a bit cramped at times, though we can work as long as we like. Last Saturday, or was it Sunday morning, we just could not use the loud tools at 2AM...

Bill Woolley
Team 1079 Mentor and dad of two team members
I'll sleep next month

[JakeGallagher]

We have a few rooms we work in.
First and the most used room is the Advisor's classroom. His room is one of the larger of the science classrooms in our school and it has the proper measures to take care of fire problems or anything like that.
Second most used room for robo-construction is the hallway right outside the science classrooms. Why? Because it's there, d'uh
We use another science room to do somt testing and smaller jobs in, but that room is mainly for business work and chairman's award writing, so we don't do much loud stuff in there.

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by YLDNWLY

After looking at the poll results, I just had to vote since the indication was that no team built in a team members garage. Well, the only build shop that our team has ever known in our three year existence, "Robot Central" is my garage. Actually half of the garage as the other half has an old Mustang in it for later.

It is a bit cramped at times, though we can work as long as we like. Last Saturday, or was it Sunday morning, we just could not use the loud tools at 2AM...

Bill Woolley
Team 1079 Mentor and dad of two team members
I'll sleep next month

Yeah, we have been there too. Fortunately, we have not had to build the entire robot there for all season, but considerable portions have been moved back and forth between the shop at the school and the shop at my house (first in the garage, but thankfully indoors as of this year!)

-dave

[Goobergunch]

We build the Friarbot in a large cubicle located on the warehouse floor of CTDI, our primary sponsor.

[Fixen]

Originally Posted by bradford86

We build our robot in our schools manufacturing lab. It is a very good place to build at. We have the computer lab, with 30 or so computers running Inventor, right outside the door into the manufacturing lab we have a full size playing field and on the other side is all of our equipment. We use 3 mills, 4 or 5 lathes, 2 TIG welders, and all sorts of other tools. So far this year, we haven't had any parts made outside of our lab.

Currently, you have the best conditions.

I think it depends mostly on a team's luck, though. Our school has no vacant and usable rooms. There's one under our courtyard (it actually used to be a firing range) but it's literally swamped with plants growing in there. There's also one below the auditorium but that has no electricity. However, if a team can net enough money from sponsors I guess they can rent space from local unused warehouses (which our community has none).

[Liz C]

we have a rather random location: the convent basement. It is a bit odd (esp. for new members), but we suprisingly have lots of space, except for the fact that the ceilings are kind of low

[Brad Lanpher]

We use a corner of a physics classroom and the wood shop to build our robot. We are very limited with space and tools but every year we manage.

[5dimes]

umm we build it right outside a math classroom in our school...outside because theres not enough room inside....and then it rains and everything gets very bad.

[N7UJJ]

We have a small room about the size of an office. We test run in a hall. When it is time to test on carpet, we go in a math room after school and take all the desks out and return them when we are finished.

[Wayne Doenges]

We build our bot in a church (The Good Shepard) basement wood shop. We had to bring in a band saw and belt sander. We also had to bring in a kerosene heater.
Luckily one of our mentors has a partial warehouse where we can set up part of the playing field.

Wayne Doenges
CAD Mentor