Organizing your equipment?

VEX V5 General Discussion
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How do you like to organize your equipment like the brain controllers and batteries and what not! Any photo ideas anyone can give me. Thanks!

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RoboSource sells an excellent travel kit for those parts, might be worth looking into, because it goes to competitions as well.

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Middle school coach - organized? HA! they don’t do “organized”.

True situation at Worlds - “We forgot to pack a joystick controller…”

Pro tip, develop a packing list and make sure gear is packed.

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We put parts into different draws categorized by many pieces

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Here’s one thread about the lab, etc…

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I am sure there are many mentors/teachers who will be happy to showcase their beautiful lab setup :slight_smile:

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Only when news crew are there …

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Ok, realized there is a follow up needed - on eve of traveling to Worlds my teams suddenly became responsible and clean up shop before news crew showed up…

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yeah… it always changed them instantly :smiley:

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I like the idea but my team not not have much money any thing else.

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Drop by businesses. Ask them if you can have some of their cardboard packing boxes that stuff comes in. Eventually you will find a box that has internal dividers of some sort. This would also be a good time to ask for sponsorship.

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when ever people are coming over this one kids acts like his is doing something. when we all know that he dose nothing :roll_eyes:

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That is a amazing low budget idea for sorting our stuff

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Heyy! Mr. Pascal cameo! (Always nice to put a face to the name)

A senator was once scheduled to visit our engineering classroom (in the back we have our robot stuff) around first semester. It was the middle of the first competition crunch, so needless to say, it wasn’t pretty :sweat_smile:

To answer the OP’s question though, we have about 2 9-drawer tool chests that house everything. Here’s the breakdown (I can get a picture Tuesday after AP testing):

  1. Brains and controllers
  2. Screws, Spacers, standoffs, and nuts
  3. Various extra stuff (gussets, tracks, chains, ball bearings, etc.)
  4. Aluminum
  5. Sensors
  6. Gears
    (smaller drawers on the side)
  7. Bearing Flats, pillow blocks, high strength bearing flats, etc.
  8. Motors & cartridges
  9. Wires
  10. Wheels
    (Second tool chest)
  11. Steel (I don’t know what’s in the other drawers. We’re still filling them up and organizing them)
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I suggest using the cube stands from Tower Takeover, at it is easy to find certain parts (Like a 1.25 inch screw) as there is a big area for the pieces to settle into.

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interesting idea. would you just use the holes in cubes of something? send a image if you can

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Something like this:
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The image is small tho

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