
Hazbot
Australia
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Thought an insight into our different workshops would be fun. My wife Kimbra has been nice enough to have me relegated to our spare room called "The Computer Room". In this room I do just about everything for robotics except saw metal. I seem to be always vacuuming up shards of solder , plastic and Metal.
For storage I use color coded boxes - red electronic parts, yellow tools, blue for batteries and battery holders and a large plastic container for all my robot parts, wheels etc
I don't know about my fellow robot makers out there but my biggest problem in the fever pitch of a build is finding things - screwdrivers, solder, gluegun, multimeter etc (once I spent half an hour trying to find my electric drill that was plugged in on the floor in the middle of the room). I found it by stubbing my toe on it.
that's a nice work bench! looks like you dedicated a room to it
smart
I found that you can't have enough tables and shelves. Shelving units from walmart (cheap plastic kind) work well. If you look at my videos, i'm surrounded by plastic shelving lol.
For keeping tools handy, i lay them out in a row next to where i sit. They start to get messy, but i'm very organized and discipline myself to fix the mess every so often
My robot workshop
No basements in Los Angeles, so here is my garage shop space (quick panorama). I share this robot space with all my make up effects equipment, so its tight in there!
Will
Here is my cluttered garage workspace.
View to the right.
View to the left. Projects: R2's Dome, Robosapien V1, Wall-E, Omnibot-1, Omnibot-2
Here is a pic of my HIC project. Just need some good weather so I can finish sanding and paint.
No workshop for me. Just a corner of my bedroom and a desk. I've got to keep my inventory light as I will eventually have to ship it all back to the USA when Im done here. Heavy tools+extra parts=expensive shipping.
Same here, I use part of my home office and i go outside in back patio for dremeling/gluing/drilling/etc.