Our Respective "Workshops"

[guibot]

my workshop
Recently I transformed my living room, it is now my workshop

[edgee]

Work in progress

I started building my workshop last year just after we moved in but ive been to cought up with learning mysql to concentrate on it:

I plan on having it run around 2 walls in the garage with the rest as storage space. Its a double garage so theres plenty of room for messing around in.

[BaseOverApex]

Quality vs Quantity
Judging by the quality of stuff you turn out, size doesn’t matter (TWSS).

[BaseOverApex]

"It"?
By “it” one assumes you don’t mean the small child? LOL. Hey, lovin’ the windows, by the way. Is the room beyond in your main house? It looks like the latches are on teh inside of the windows!

[BaseOverApex]

Living to Work
…but where do you live, now? In your workshop?

[guibot]

I still have one bedroom, and a kitchen… and my wife´s apartment

[robologist]

Some shelf space for robo-toys

Here’s a pic of a set of shelves occupied by my favorite robo stuff. Hopefully I’ll find some of my tools and things to get a good work area put together.

[edgee]

lol

na thats my daughter dude, she was a great help

Its a double garage build at the bottom of the house, its massive and perfect for a workshop. Im in the process of taking my old bmw appart in there atm.

[voodoobot]

My workarea as of this past

My workarea as of this past weekend after a move. My desk and work table face each other with a nice window on one side. This will work great for my solar projects…when I have sun on the side. The desk is where I plan to do most of the programming while the table is where I’ll be doing most of the buiding and initial testing. I’m still looking to find the best layout for my work table as it has a lot of room for working.

and computer desk/secondary area

[vince086]

work bench, aka dinner

work bench, aka dinner table. it is actualy a grea are cause the tv and computer are on the other side so i can watch stuff while building.... and when i need to cut or do something i just use the wooden box on the floor, there is one small problem, chipping and other bits get caught to your soxs and draged around the place.

wonder why there is a coffee grinder and a scale in a robot construcion area ? that for chemistry, highly flamable stuff right next to the sldering iron... what could go wrong ?

[justinhulbert]

I’m really liking those

I’m really liking those little gears in the drawer (bottom right of photo) where did you buy them from, or what did you rip them out of?

[niall]

and now i only have a week

and now i only have a week or so left in the lab. Here is a photo from last week of how it has developed in the intervening time!

quick run down of what you can see:

left hand side computer is my development machine (windows XP), use it for programming any embedded systems I might be using (in this case PICs and Atmel chips), then my macbook, for general research, use bootcamp for software programming.

Under the monitor is a bit more exciting, the thing with the orange stripe is a GSM modem which we’ve been using to control our helicopter via SMS. Next to it is a simple test rig i threw together so i didn’t have to lug a power supply and voltmeter about with me. Next to the power supply (to the left) is the main PCB for our helicopter (missing the ATMEGA128 chip), with another GSM modem attached.

In the background you can see a kettle, a panini machine and a small sample of the some 300 glass barrs bottles* we have in the lab…

Not really looking forward to having to tidy it all up at the end of this week!

*those in the UK will know exactly how much that equates to when we take them back

[justinhulbert]

My shop

My shop 360

I’ve been looking through all the different shops and am amazed by all the cool stuff you guys have. Anyway here are a few pictures of my work space.

Ok so this is the first corner got my wood lathe, some part bins, a few loose tools, tool boxes, and a couple plastic bins full of JUNK!

 

This is my electronics corner, figure that LOL. Packed full of parts and wire, also got a signal generator, portable scope, and a few other cool things on the rack to the right.

 

Third corner of my shop, band saw, CNC (not finished), more drawers FULL of hardware, some bins, yeah…

Ok unfortunately this is the fourth and final corner of my shop… you all have eyes so just take a look, pretty much just more parts, and JUNK!

This is the CNC I acquired from my mentor it’s really nice! He built it a while back and was looking to get rid of it. He still has the z-axis in his shed so I need to go get that sometime. Translators work beautifully, about 3’x3’ just need to design a control board to link them to the computer.

This is my other CNC that i started in 7th grade and havent done much on since. “Back in the day” I didn’t know much about this stuff so I ordered plans form a guy named John, it’s actually called The 7^th so that’s kind of cool. Anyway its 3-axis 12”x9”x3” cutting area. Again needs a control board and also a few steppers. Should be nice when done, might sell… He still sells plans: Here

 

 

 

 

 

[mintvelt]

Machines
Wow! You got a lot of cool machines and tools and stuff. BTW did you clean up your shop for the pictures or does it allways look that tidy?

[justinhulbert]

Yeah, I guess, though there

Yeah, I guess, though there not of much use till I build control boards. And yeah I try to keep the place pretty clean but there are those times when it gets so cluttered I cant even work on my bench. My current experiment is on my desk up in my room so that’s a mess. It’s a little 12v Pitman with a quadrant encoder, and Victor 884, trying to synchronize the two for servo control.

[jabbapam]

My Bench

Thought i would add mine to this great post, don’t feel so bad about the mess I make.

 

[slick]

My Work Space

So I have been kinda quiet for a while but i have finally gotten a real workspace set up… in a closet that has a depth of about 2 feet and my work surface is a shelf with the shortest dimension being 1.5 feet. Its a bit short but its very wide. here are some pictures:

The big picture

Here you can see everything, or almost everything as the top shelf is cut off. There are 4 shelfs. One is my work surface the others are storage for my stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the top shelf.. Entirely composed of legos!

Lego bricks are so useful I just have to have an entire shelf of em!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is my electronics workspace

There is a soldering iron but that is on the shelf above with other tools.

My coding area is right next to it and consists of a computer (go mac!) and well thats it. My machining workspace is my front porch.

[dutchbot]

Here’s mine

I spent 14 hours so far on cleaning up things. Last week this room was a no go area, only for the brave and acrobatic to be entered.

But I'm getting there.... Dreadfully slow......

Now another 14 hours to tidy up the other side of the room and another 40 to sort out all the small things. So many of them and somehow they all tend to end up in one big box. Or is it just me.........

[hardmouse]

This is very clean!! Mine

This is very clean!! Mine just big mess! I couldn’t find what I need when it’s clean.

[GroG]

Needs a label

I am in the same situation, but I have labeled that one big box “Un-Sorted”.  This keeps the illusion that things are organized.