Storage Space & Previous Robots

[JC-75]

We have a bunch of our robots dating back to 2001, if I recall... They usually end up in people's garages or stored in the school when our warehouse is not available (offseason)

[mtaman02]

I'm not as close to 522 as I used to be due to my work schedule but from their first robot to the current one are kept in a nice size room that way they can do some public relations tasks and get some excersize. The Girls; as they are still considered are well maintained and get their monthly maintenance. Well except their 2003 robot, she was canabalized so that the 2004 robot can have a somewhat similar mentality

I try to prevent the coaches from taking apart the girls only b/c each one has its story and if you take them apart no one will be around to tell the story.

As for spare parts theres no such thing as "SPARE", however there are such things as a prototype & "TEMPORARY" parts

[qhsscience]

Our school facility is housed in a technical wing of the high school, and some of our space used to be a "house" for electrical students to wire. The first floor is our tool storage area and the upper area is for more long term storage. Until last year, we had a "graveyard" of robots up in storage. We decided last year to dismantle most of them for parts and extra space, so basically we now have this year's and last year's robots complete, with two more stripped-down frames used as prototyping platforms/driver practice/hassle bots/programming/etc. We had thoughts of hanging the old robots from the ceiling or displaying them as some type of "museum" of history, but that concept never got past the idea stage. In the "old" days, you had to return your control system at the end of the year, and keeping machines wasn't as useful...now that you get to keep the controls every year, it seems more reasonable to keep machines functioning if you have the space.

[Chris Marra]

We keep a lot of old field elements, some driver stations we made, various robot parts, and some other things related to robotics in a shipping container next to our fuel cell, similar to:

Some robots are stored in a little closet on the exterior of our school, and then we also have another closet behind our machine shop / computer lab / classroom where we keep the rest of the robots we still have, not all of which operate, but are still pretty assembled. I think we have pretty much all of them, though I'm sure some of the earlier ones are no longer there. The only robot to really see cannibalization was our 2004 robot, which remains our test robot for this year, and has been very modified in the last two years. These three areas are reffered to as super super secret store, super secret store, and secret storage.

The school used to give us a whole abandoned classroom to keep things, but due to expansion, they just gave us the shipping container.