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yash101 15-02-2014 21:26
Re: Things you only do ONCE!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Whippet (Post 1343650)
244. Let the shop monkeys attempt to modify the code in your absence.

"But we only wanted to reverse the direction of the motor!"
Well, that is sometimes required. I helped a rookie team fix their robot when they lost their arm and didn't have the right motor. There were only 3 kids and NO mentors so we showed them how to reverse the motor even though I don't code in LabView!

magnets 15-02-2014 21:45
Re: Things you only do ONCE!
 
Not begin assembling the final robot until today (3 days left of build):D

Snapshot 15-02-2014 22:03
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256. Find a 12VDC -> 5VDC converter labeled "BAD". Decide to find out why it's labeled as such.

Needless to say, lots of smoke came out, and I debated using its terrible smell as a deterrent.

xXhunter47Xx 16-02-2014 00:22
Re: Things you only do ONCE!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Snapshot (Post 1343742)
256. Find a 12VDC -> 5VDC converter labeled "BAD". Decide to find out why it's labeled as such.

Needless to say, lots of smoke came out, and I debated using its terrible smell as a deterrent.
Related,
257: accidentally touching the unprotected terminals on the pressure switch to the unprotected terminals of a spike.
Let's just say the magic smoke came out and it smelled like a sweatshop.

adammiller3122 16-02-2014 12:58
Re: Things you only do ONCE!
 
258. Almost driving your Robot down stairs! (Oh wait, we did that twice in 1 week!) At least it didn't go down!!!

Kingland093 16-02-2014 14:26
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259. Wire the solenoid backwards and then spend the next 5 days trying to figure out why it isn't working

Joseph Smith 17-02-2014 10:25
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260. Use locktite on the bolts that hold your camera mount to a lexan panel.
261. Put the bumpers on the practice bot with a hammer.

Al Skierkiewicz 17-02-2014 11:57
Re: Things you only do ONCE!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Joseph Smith (Post 1344420)
260. Use locktite on the bolts that hold your camera mount to a lexan panel.
For those of you wondering about this item, locktite causes crazing of Lexan panels which leads to a failure of the panel.

zachrobo1 24-02-2014 19:30
Re: Things you only do ONCE!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by yash101 (Post 1343713)
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.
Thing is, that actually happened to us once :p

Joseph Smith 24-02-2014 20:42
Re: Things you only do ONCE!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz (Post 1344479)
For those of you wondering about this item, locktite causes crazing of Lexan panels which leads to a failure of the panel.
I'll say. Within a minute cracks were spreading from the bolt holes. I've been told by a very reliable source (the creator of Talons) that a drop of locktite will make a Talon casing crumble in minutes.

kelseysea 24-02-2014 21:24
Re: Things you only do ONCE!
 
262. Tip your toolboxes on their sides for travel. (Everything falls to the back and you can't open the drawers without some struggle.)
263. Wire your robot with the wrong gauge rookie year, thus having to rewire almost the entire thing Friday morning at your Regional.

Al Skierkiewicz 25-02-2014 07:26
Re: Things you only do ONCE!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kevin Selavko (Post 1338962)
240. Let a freshman solder unsupervised because he said he knew what he was doing.
I do this from time to time. Once I did it and watched in horror as he touched the hot end of the iron. True story!

Daniel_LaFleur 25-02-2014 08:29
Re: Things you only do ONCE!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kevin Selavko (Post 1338962)
240. Let a freshman solder unsupervised because he said he knew what he was doing.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz (Post 1349363)
I do this from time to time. Once I did it and watched in horror as he touched the hot end of the iron. True story!
I did this as well, only to smell the burning smell from our maple toped workbench. :yikes:

Chadfrom308 25-02-2014 08:40
Re: Things you only do ONCE!
 
It was a couple of students and I and no mentors on Thursday in the pit. We saw the robot in the bag and thought "Why are we wasting time!?" and we opened the bag without being inspected ::rtm::

Lets just say we wont ever do that again. Fortunately another mentor from another team saw us and told the judges and we were okay-ed

JamesCH95 25-02-2014 09:06
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264. Assign a veteran driver's ex-girlfriend to the drive team.


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