DroneBot Workshop Tour - Welcome to the Workshop!
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Many people have requested a “tour” of my workshop. Today I will do exactly that. Welcome to the Workshop!
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The DroneBot Workshop is not very big but there’s a lot packed into this small space. Today I will show you around the workshop and explain what all of that strange stuff on my workbench is.
I’ll also show you some pictures I took while I was constructing the workshop. You might be surprised to see how it looked before construction - I think it’s fair to say that the transformation is nothing short of incredible!
While I’m pretty proud of the workshop, especially as I built it all myself, the real purpose of this video is to give you some ideas for building or enhancing your own workshop or workspace. I’ll show you my two workbenches and also the pegboard that you see behind me in every video.
I also found a very short video that I took right after I finished construction, it’s pretty rough but rather amusing.
There is no corresponding article on the DroneBot Workshop website for this video, as the video pretty well says it all. But I do invite you to visit dronebotworksh... and check out all of the articles and tutorials.
I also would like to make an announcement!
I get a LOT of suggestions and requests for subjects that you’d like me to do videos for, in fact, this video was made because it is one of the most common requests I’ve received. The suggestions come in many ways - emails sent directly to me, comments buried in the videos and also comments on the website.
In order to gather them all together I am putting together a webpage that you can use to make suggestions and to vote on the subjects I’m planning to teach. This way I can keep all of the requests and suggestions in one place, allowing me to make the content that you will enjoy and benefit from the most.
I will be sending out all of the details in my next newsletter, so if you’re not a subscriber yet please sign up . I’m not trying to sell you anything I promise, I just want to keep in touch and finds out what subjects you'd like me to make articles and videos about.
I hope you enjoy the video and that it gives you some ideas for creating the workshop of your dreams.
Welcome to the workshop!
I am totally impressed with your self-taught skills and attention to detail. I know how much hard work went into this project, and you should be proud of what you have accomplished. This has inspired me to clean up and organize my workspace, and I thank you for the kick in the pants.
No joke. My son watches your channel. Thanks for being a good influence.
Drywall? UGH - I was in my early thirties and complained I was TOO OLD FOR DRYWALL. Oh, to go back those forty years. You are to be commended on the project's shear ENERGY, plus the design, layout, construction, finish work and THIS video. All so good!
Thank you for sharing...
I was 56 when I built the workshop, about to turn 60 this year. And although I vowed never to drywall again (the dust is a killer) I'm now thinking of drywalling the one remaining area in my basement that isn't finished yet. Hopefully I'll talk myself out of the idea!
So glad you enjoyed the video.
YES, @@Dronebotworkshop please keep up your good works - and keep us posted on the drywall episodes
From Belgium: The fact that you are so humble and calm and resilient and edited your videos so perfectly well, makes me want to give you this message: I have a workshop 1 times bigger but bigger is not better. I split up into, electrics, electronics, woodworking and metal working. Will send you some photos when it is done (when people are on Mars?). You INSPIRED me!!!
I’m glad that you posted this despite your hesitation. I’d hazard a guess that most of us are fighting space limitations. So this is inspiring.
Always remember kiddies....it's not the size of a man's shop but how you use your shop that makes all the difference! And everyone likes a clean shop! Nice stuff DroneBot! Thank you for all the videos! I subscribed today!
Yes sir Bill you are a neet fellow.. you are also a neat fellow.. I love your little workshop. You and my wife must be somehow related.. she had me build her a little office.. She has put enough things in her office to fill a two bedroom house.. she is so organized and neat I often kid her about the 8 square inches of space she has left in there.. It is like being in a small radio room in one of the old diesel subs like the bonefish or something.. Oh YEAH! what a scruffy looking fellow.. I was a carpenter for 30 years and I really like to watch talented people building for the first time.. You can build my friend.. or should I say billed.. oh I crack myself up...thanks so much for the share Bill and please carry on..
"It's such a tiny shop that I thought it would be too short of a video"... 36 minutes later I'm still sitting here watching and imagining that after he watched the final edit, there were at least three things he realized he didn't show 🤣 Very efficient use of space here. I also couldn't help but chuckle during the construction slide-show narration as it felt a bit "Mr. Rogers"-esque with the calm and measured tone and delivery. I kept waiting for trolly to appear or a little jingle to play... or perhaps a break to walk over and feed the fish. I love your videos. Keep up the great work!
I really like your little workshop. A small well organized space can make working on projects much easier, when everything is close at hand it saves time and makes clean up very easy.
Yes! I have done lots of ceiling sheetrock work - by myself, too. I built homes for a living for a few years. I always thought it was interesting how on snow days, I was the only one capable of getting to the job site. Well, when your family needs money to live, you just do it! I made several innovative jigs to help me get the rock into place and braced up flat and positioned and soon, one screw at a time, it was up. Oh, well.
I started serious working life in a sign shop as a sign mechanic, graduated to the electrician, then to welder, then to fabricator, then to sheet metal shop, helper, then foreman- I was on my way to being a true artisan. I ended up as a field supervisor, crane operator and sign erector. Have you ever walked around on top of a 120' tall, lighted highway sign? Some fun and great views. I quit one day and started my own construction business- and finally retired some years later.
Yet, I was never disciplined enough or patient enough to keep a well-organized shop, as you have created and maintained. I really, really respect that. I could not tell you how many shops I have neatly organized with high hopes of efficiency and neatness and as soon as the first jobs came in, it all turned into Hell's messiest shops. It takes a very dedicated person to end a 14 hour day and still have enough energy to put everything back to order, sweep up and throw away the scrap. I ruined my best intentions by thinking I needed to keep the slightest leftovers _ "Hmm...I Might need that someday!". I think the best rule anyone could follow is to get rid of anything that is not used or used up at least once a month.
Anyway, your mental discipline shows up in both your shop and your most excellent teaching. God bless you, Bill- You are truly an inspiration.
This is a thing of beauty. What a set up!
I am studying electronic engineering and electrical mechanical engineering and I have just started to build my own workshop, this video is amazing and that workshop is very beautiful, now I feel very inspired, it has a new subscriber.
Amazing man, amazing job, amazing courses. Doing such things alone means a lot. Thanks
Thank you very much for devotion to share all your excellent work experience.
You Rule! And thank you for being one of my most vaulted professors.
I was one of two or three guys who ribbed you about the size of your workshop. I thought it was a TV set that was just wheeled into a studio , having been in TV for many years. Now we can see that you designed and built it yourself and did a really great job. The roll of anti-static material was really funny...I was expecting something 10 times smaller...lol.
I've saved most of your videos and think they are all first class productions. Kudos for making this video, Bill..
I really love your workshop, well organized. The best thing with your workshop is the built-in jacks and sockets.
Very much impressed with your working n your knowledge in electronics. I have seen your videos on power supply in that your presentation was excellent.I left this field after 35 years n out of field for last 12 years.after seeing you again I am trying to come back again.thanks
You did an amazing job!!! The “secret” video put a huge smile on my face- you seem like a very genuine and caring man, thank you for sharing your knowledge! I’ve learned so much from finding your channel a short time ago and you’ve inspired me to organize my work area and get into more projects!
I am redoing a 120 year old home and doing it myself. I am really enjoying your retelling of your experience. My kitchen is not square either and when my pantry door edge lined up with the drawer below it I was so tickled! Great job on your shop!
I'm late for the tour! I just wanted to tell you again- of all the hundreds of channels I regularly watch, you rank WAY at the top, easily one of the best 5, and certainly top 3 when it comes to instructional videographers!! Thanks for all your hard work!!!
Your workshop is awesome and your videos are well made and I admire your intelligence. You're an inspiration to me and I appreciate your content. Thank you.
Nice shop, well thought out. I really liked your video on the Op-Amps...very helpful. God Bless.
Totally impressed with your attention to detail and your workshop design. I'm fairly new to your channel and look forward to viewing most if not all of your videos. Thank you!
I'm not even nearly what you would call an electronic hobbyist... Btw, I just watched a couple of your videos about rotary encoders and I2C .
I have to tell you. You are a great teacher. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
great channel !!!
I am building my own work area and try to adopt the best ideas I see in other workshops. Love your space.
Good naration of the electronics projects with hands-on experience .very helpful for me for the projects to build easily without searching sites for information
Awesome, and inspirational! I am glad you told us that you have "off site" storage for "stuff" because as every true maker knows - you can never have too many tools! It's a fallacy...
Normally I don't trust guys that have a clean, tidy workbench but I have made an exception in your case. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Simply incredible. Absolutely wonderful, I’m beyond impressed!
Bill!! This was ... SUPERB! I loved your descriptions, especially the anecdotes about the square peg-board and the roll of anti-static foam. This workshop is a joy to behold. Obviously, your colour matching with available tools is profoundly impressive.
(This parenthetical note is NOT a criticism - but a little observation for other viewers who were struck by hearing "workshop" seemingly every six seconds in the first two minutes: When I noticed that, I restarted the video, typed "0+1" on my calculator and pressed "=" every time I heard the word. I'm not sure that I heard every utterance of the word, while concentrating on the content, but my count was 46 by the end! Gotta love Bill!)
LOL!
Thank you for sharing! Outstanding Workshop! Thanks again, Joel
Thank you so much for all your videos. I've already wached a lot of them and I've learned so much from you! Regards, Gunther from Germany
Thank you for sharing the experience ! Your workshop looks fabulous and also, I’m glad I’m not the only one removing the price tag of a 2 by 4.
Coming from a background of 5s, and engineering, I must say, congratulations!. You nailed it! Very efficient work area. Thanks for the tour. I am happy to have found this channel, I have a lot to learn.
31:00 This is the anti static material I have left over... (backs up a truck). That made me chuckle.
A very impressive and well thought out electronics work bench!!!
Recently I came in contact with your UA-cam channel. On the very first video that I saw I fell in love of your workshop. So neat & nice arrangements in small place. The colour scheme is also very pleasant.
Bill,
Thanks for your commitment to sharing your knowledge and experience. Your workshop is a brilliant use of such a tiny space. I am fortunate enough to have just built a very edgy house on 100 acres in a special wilderness area listed on our National Trust and State Heritage Register. A workshop with a view. Oh, and it's on the fringe of one of Australia's major wine districts. :)
I have always considered myself a bit disorganised, but if I'm honest, I'm a bit OCD. My tools are not all on pegboard, but those that aren't are tidily laid out in their own drawer. If my house contractors need a tool, they know I will have one. I'm disabled, so they go to the shed on their own. (94x26 ft. thee bays, all lined and insulated).
I can describe the exact drawer etc., but they often go on their own and just know where to find it!
Long story short (OK too late...), I have the luxury of space, so while I'm organised, I'm not as efficient as you - by a long shot! Space can be your enemy.
My struggle - and I'd love to hear more from you - is the details of your storage. That is, what's in what drawers of your storage boxes. How are they organised? I guess that's going to vary widely amongst what items different people need to store.
I use boxes like you have for your jumper leads - with typically 18 compartments. We in AU call them 'tackle boxes'. I have a few different ones but keep to only a few types for the sake of consistency. I then store them like books in a bookshelf. All labelled to within an inch of their lives. My little Dymo label printer prints from Excel templates.
I'm playing with but not diving into Arduino etc. just yet. I have degrees in Chemistry and Computing, but I am not an engineer and want to get my head around analogue electronics first. To that end I bought a used electronics education board with pwr supply, basic signal generator etc. from a US university engineering dept. And of course, an oscilloscope and good quality multimeters etc.
Sorry for the dissertation. Keep up what must be a very busy schedule. Your work is great.
Doug
Thanks!
And thank you as well Robert, much appreciated!
Some good ideas there. While watching this video my wife popped in, saw it for no more than 1.5 seconds and said "what a neat workshop he has"! I suppose what that really meant was that my workshop is, ummm, not so neat. However, my day will come in a few months when our new house is built. In it I plan to build a new workshop and it will have many of the ideas I've picked up around the net, including some that I have seen here.
wOo! First time seem a Worksop being totally built by self. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for all your great videos. I have learned a lot and use your videos, ideas, and others channels to keep my skill levels and knowledge current.
I started out in Electronics in high school and spent 6 years in The Navy in Advanced Electronics program. However, I spent the 5 years out of the 6 years active on land. I was assigned to a government agency with a clearance working on Digital Equipment Corporations DEC System 10 main frame computers. Troubleshooting them down to the board level and then then discrete component level repair back in 1968-1974 time frame. They actual supported core memory for their systems. The systems supporting multiple Dec 10 systems computers coupled together for real-time data collection and timesharing systems with shared memory between them. Large rooms of computer equipment working together.
The last year in the Navy, I worked part-time as one of a few Field Service Engineers as a Technician for Digital Equipment Corporation before being hired full time. I ended up supporting the DuPont Experimental Stations real-time data capture and time sharing systems. With DEC PDP10, PDP 8, PDP 9, nd PDP 11 computers coupled together. It was a lot of fun and enjoyable work.
While working for DEC I built and leased Cromemco Computer S100 Bus Z80 systems configured as using bank switching MPM Multi- Processing Machines to multiple local high schools and the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
Again, Thank you for your great videos and knowledge that you share with us all.
Love the extra footage watching how and why the shop is pretty cool.
Awesome makers space. I would love to have something like this one day. Very neat and visually pleasing.
im still watching but just got to 10 mins in and i'm blown away by how great a job you did building your workshop. Massive thanks for showing us this :-D
Subscribed and yes you have inspired me to work on my area, ty!! :-)
I love the dimmer doohickey’s. I have lots of those. Not all dimmers, but lots of doohickeys.
Of course you're proud of it, dude, just look at it!
This video is absolutely amazing! Thanks a bunch for sharing this with us!
You have done an absolutely fantastic job! I've seen so called "professionals" try and fail miserably. But you have put in so much effort and came out with a fantastic result!
Excelent work Bill, - - Muy Bonito!!! , Greetings from México.
Hi Bill, what can I say, another very excellent video, many thanks.
Very inspiring. Thanks so much for sharing your experience with building such a well thought out workshop.
I can't keep a nail in a wall, so I applaud you for your efforts! Very nice layout.
SUPER, SUPER. Excelente trabajo., Se ve de lujo.
what an awesome video. thank you sharing sir! love it! nothing complicated, all building materials that a regular person like myself could realistically tackle. I also appreciate how you covered the mechanical bench.
You are a perfect package - great VDOs , nice explanation.
This is by far the most fantastic little workshop in the world. (I thought it would be a great deal larger) I could only hope to build a work area for my tinkering that is 10% as spectacular as this. I am also a fan of pegboard, even chipboard full of nails is a step up from searching for 15 minutes to locate a tool. Your workshop is extremely well designed for the space you had available. Thanks for sharing.
Nice shop, look like your videos, neat and organized.
No mention of the white and blue color scheme, very cool, kudos ;-)
Beautiful! I love your pace.
I love you workshop, reminds me my workshop in India, but that was not too tidy but have all the tools, but now I came to UK to do Double MS in AI with Robotics, and soon will make LAB again.
Well Thanks for all you knowledge.
You are meticulous sir! Well done!
it's the other way around.. this is not basic.. this is spectacular.. i just enjoyed the video
Great Job Boss, I'm a huge fan and i will take this video as a plane to complete my own workshop
You passion is admirable. By next year I will have my lab setup
Good thing you did that back in 2015. If you'd have done it in 2021 you would've had to remortgage the house for the lumber. Awesome job btw. I dream of being that organized.
That was great Bill, you have every right to be proud of your workshop. Many great ideas for storage and work areas. I was totally captivated for the whole 36 min.
Looking at all sorts of electronics workshop tour videos at the moment, yours is the most inspiring build so far :-)
FABULOUS Work Shop!!!!
Well planned and well executed. Very nice!
Thanks for the tour! I'm planning out my own workbench in a small space and this provided good inspiration!
Dude, this is GREAT! Congrats from 5 years into the future!
nice job! that is a lot of work that you did and it turned out great. Way to go!
Thanks for the video, you have given me quite a few really good ideas!
Even though the space is not that large, your shop is very well organized! Great job! The more important thing is what’s inside and what you do there!
I’m glad I’m building my shop with windows. Very few on yt seem to have any.
Excellent tour. Thanks for making this DroneBot workshop.
This man is a mastermind!
Yea pegboard is awesome. Thanks for the video.
Congratulations on your workshop ! It looks very neat, organized and...just beautiful.
great to see the workshop. and the construction photos.
Thankyou for sharing your expertise. I just watched your egloo car construction.....You made it see easy......
Nice shop! Mine will never be so aesthetically pleasing, but you've given us some great ideas. Thanks for sharing how you put it all together, it's looks great! I bet it's a real pleasure to work there.
If you're ever in doubt, this is really cool! I'm hoping I will have something similar one day 😊
Beautiful 👍🙏
A great shop. Well organized with plenty of connections for your projects.
Great shop Sir!! I’m 36 and I seem to have turned into a Jack of all trades, amateur level. 😂 I’ve been watching many shop tours spanning from wood working, mechanic, audio, and electronics. I will sure take some pointers from you to apply to the electrical corner of my garage shop. Thank you.
Just ran across you channel, love your workshop. Great logic used designing it. I bought an Arduino when they first came out and a book on projects. I organized all my equipment into boxes, and never had time (active duty military back then) to mess with it. Now that I am settled into my final place with a detached workshop and some time, I got back into building custom speakers and decided to dabble a little into the Pi world building a media box. Which led me here somehow. I watched your Pi video explaining the differences between the micro computer and the micro controller and a little dab into python (awesome video). And was hoping I could find a tour of your workshop. Thanks for making these videos, your teaching techniques are very good for the uneducated. Look forward to your future videos.
gotta admire that commitment to the blue! - keep up the great work bud!
Love your workshop! And your channel. I'm learning lots!
Great works! Very inspiring setup, but I just Can't afford to rent an apartment large enough to build even a modest workshop. But I make projects anyway. I use my living room and take out from the closet just what I need at a time. Not very convenient but it does the job. I watched at least 10 of your very well made tutorials. Not only they are excellent and very easy to follow, but your vedeos are also edited in a very professional way! Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
Nice shop. Very well designed and layout. Well organized too.
I live in poverty, on UBI with a walk in closet sized SRO. But I appreciate you sharing your wisdom and knowledge with us plebs.
Thank you for your video, I love your work.
Great work with such a small space. I'm a fan of the keep it simple principle myself.
Brilliant just brilliant
Love this.
Very encouraging. Will utilise the space i have
inspiring and informative. thank you for your time
It's so beautiful. Fortunately, I had dream my another new room.
Great workshop and you have a great way of teaching and making videos, thankyou