Build Space

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Where we build now is property of the Rochester City School District but it is not on school grounds. It is located in a public building that the City School District uses for special programs. We share the space with two rookie teams.

This is our previous home for a few years before we had to move to ur newest home.
At the far left next to the claw of our 2005 robot is other teams trophies on display in our team Museum the leads to the entrance to our kitchen. Past the kitchen area after you walk past our trophy case of official awards won at FIRST events and under our two National Chairman's banners and our 2008 FLR banner to the left (not pictured would be our PAW room where the website, animation and Promotions including designing our Hall of Fame booth). A little further to the right would be where Drives and Electrical team and the Mechanical team reside in their respective areas (also not pictured). Where all those chairs are is where the main meeting area resides and behind that is where our practice field is right nest to it. Further up towards the back is where our shop resides and our dock door is as well as the back entrance to the shop. Our 2006 robot is on display on a rotating table designed for demos. Behind the robot is our Software team's area. Then you can see the front entrance to the site and finally at the far right of the picture is our 1996 robot. We had all of our robots on display at the site(in various states of functionality) except for our 1992 robot which is in the possession of FIRST and on display at FIRST place.
Since we have moved we sadly had to dispose of some of our robots.

[Andrew Schreiber]

3450 will be building out of a pair of rooms at our school. They are exclusively ours. We have 2 lofted storage spaces, a small shop room (ironically our mill and lathe are NOT in it) and a "class room" without any desks. We also have a small office and a closet in the hallway between the rooms.

As for tools: Mill, Lathe (both older than any of our mentors but well maintained and in great condition) 3 drill presses, 1 2-ton arbor press, a vertical and horizontal band saw, and a wide variety of hand tools.

My only problem with our shop is that our heating is a little funky. We got the rooms from the school because they weren't in use. Don't know why but the heater doesn't seem to work. It stays above freezing but the average temps are close to 50. If we can't fix it over the winter break we will be investing in some space heaters. (IMHO, a safety related expense)

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

As for tools: Mill, Lathe (both older than any of our mentors but well maintained and in great condition) 3 drill presses, 1 2-ton arbor press, a vertical and horizontal band saw, and a wide variety of hand tools.

There is a horizontal mill in RPI's shop that helped win WWI! Machine tools are truly timeless...

On 1276 our initial shop space looked like this. It was a storage mezzanine until we came along in 2004. In 2005 we annexed the room under it, which gave us a 10x20 or so permanent storage space that we could keep our tools, parts and other stuff, in addition to being a "clean room" for electronics. We were also allowed to use some of the shop classes space as long as we cleaned up after ourselves, which meant that any given meeting there could be 3 or 4 or more subgroups working totally independently of each other.

It would be awesome to have 78's warehouse.

[TD78]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

It would be awesome to have78's warehouse.

We are truly blessed to have such a big workspace that we can call ours. The Navy has been very supportive of the team and it's ongoing successes (in less than two years we have gone from 1 FTC team and no FLL teams to now having 2 FTC teams and 7 FLL teams).

The workspace in that old American Robot episode has undergone a dramatic transformation. While this is a more accurate representation of current changes, it is even more different now that we have spent the last several months reorganizing the "cage" workspace to incorporate some old machine tools (a benchtop lathe, mill/drill, and standing drill press) I saved from being tossed by the Navy. There is also a small office out of the picture that we have 5 donated desktops networked together...hoping we can do some decent CAD work this year!

We lack a lot of the wicked fancy machines some other teams have access to, but try to make up for it working within our capabilities and strategy! Anyone in the Newport, RI area is welcome to visit!

[sgreco]

2079 works out of a facility that we rent. I didn't enter anything in the poll since I'm not exactly sure what it would be classified as. In total it's approximately a 4,000 square feet facility. 80% of that is an industrial floor space, and the rest is two office rooms. It works out very well for us. We put code and CAD work the offices, and on the floor space we build. The space is pretty much ideal for a FIRST team. We aren't restricted by school hours or anything. Basically if a mentor is present we can get in. The only problem is it's a little pricey.

[SuburBot]

Hello,
My team (the MHS SuburBots) works in one of the classrooms in the science hallway of our school. Since there are only ten members (half of which are either goofballs or control freaks) and four mentors (only two of which show up on a regular basis), it feels like too much space most of the time. This feeling has only increased since they added a smart-board (which those goofballs were quick to discover was excellent at playing mini-clip games) at the end of last year.
As for storage, we have six cabinets locked and reserved for us, along with a backroom where what's left of past years' robots rests.
The best thing about the room is all the power outlets. There are two at every table, along with dozens along the walls and above the counters. We're never short on places to plug laptops into.

[rcmolloy]

1647 uses Seneca High School to house most our equipment and robotics needs. We have a electrical room, CAD room, broadcast/photo room, woodshop, auto shop, and cafeteria that comes to good use. In the electrical room, most of the robot build goes on in here. Also, there is a small closet where most of our things are stored during the season. In the CAD room, most of the design and programming is done here. The broadcast/photo room is where our videos are produced and the website is built. The woodshop and autoshop is only used to cut materials for prototypes or the robot. Lastly, the cafeteria is where we eat lunch on Saturdays (...obviously) and practice driving when we don't have a field to practice on. (Dustin )

[Sarah2729]

Wow...I never realized there was such a variety for meeting locations! It's really wonderful that so many sponsors and local businesses are willing to lend space to area teams during build season!

Team 2729 is fortunate to be able to use classrooms in one of the two high schools our team members are from. Students from the other school (which is in the same district) are bused over after school. For the most part, we have each group (electrical, mechanical, marketing, etc) in a different classroom.

Additionally, on occasion, we get together with some of the other local teams to discuss ideas and practice for upcoming competitions!

[ttakashima]

Team 2504 uses 5 areas of our school.

#1. 1/2 of our schools renovated auto shop (we did the work with the help of another mentor), It's a good size - 55 x 22ft. We do most of our construction, electrical work and machining in this area.

#2. A small storage room off to the side of our auto shop which we store our snacks, books and binders. We also use this as a rest area for our assembly and electrical teams during the season.

#3. My Co-Advisors class room. We use this room for meetings, dinners and our parents night it also houses our Public Relations group.

#4. A Building and construction class room. We use this area to build our field parts, robot crate and robot cart.

#5. Our schools metal shop. We use this area for plasma cutting, welding and turning long shafts which our small lathe cannot accommodate.

Once every two weeks or so we also get the BAE mobile machine shop to stop by our school and mill out some components for us.

[oldgrowth]

we used to use the school until two years ago when on weekends the administration decided we must pay a janitor $60.an hour to unlock the door and sit even when the shop teacher was there.
We began packing up all we needed for the weekend on Friday,going to The Knights of Pythias basement do what we could and bringing it all back Monday.

This year do to other issue with the school we will be building at the Knight,with the ability to come and go as we wish.

[BrendanB]

Team 1519 meets in our coaches basement. Imagine two decent sized living rooms and a small, small bedroom to build in! One room was designated as our meeting area with a few computers, white board, and all the FLL stuff which contained no building/materials and was strictly meeting/FLL. The second room was where all the magic happened. It had all of our stuff in boxes everywhere with a little bit of floor space to build robots. The small unfinished room was our shop which had a chop saw, table saw, grinder, drill press, band saw, and all the hand tools. One funny memory was cleaning up in our build room and finding a marble fire place behind the piles of lexan and plywood!

Team 3467 uses the school's shop with access to our own large closet and CAD classroom since our coach is the teacher.

[Grim Tuesday]

Rooms E16 and E11 at the school