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I have to agree with Alan and everyone else on this. I used to be one who never would clamp the items, until that one day that the drill bit caught the button box, spun it around and hit me in the hand. Luckily it was plastic and not aluminum or my black and blue hand would have been no hand at all!

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Immediately grab the newly flattened side of a part that was just on the belt grinder.
Grab a battery by the wire.
Blindly feel for burrs underneath a sheet of metal fresh off the mill.

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239. Spill 7UP on the cRIO

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How did this happen?

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That's... that's actually quite impressive.

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240. Let a freshman solder unsupervised because he said he knew what he was doing.

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Leave the drive fuses in while testing autonomous in the pits with the wheels on the cart.
The robot drove off the end, took a nose dive, but luckily our teacher caught it. Ramp lower-er tore his shirt and gave him a battle wound.

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241. Let your mentor give a spirit team member sparkles and expect them NOT to put it all over the drive team. ::ouch:: so many sparkles......

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242. Destroy 3 10-Turn-Pots on your winch by overturning them before deciding that regardless of code complexity an encoder is more appropriate for the task.

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243. Let programmers use the mill having no clue what they are doing as you are showing off the shop to new mentors.

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244. Let the shop monkeys attempt to modify the code in your absence.

"But we only wanted to reverse the direction of the motor!"

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245. Change designs 9 days from the end of the build season

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I'm a programmer and I have the electrical memorized and I can manufacture anything I want to make! I think that's more of a meme than reality :D.