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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.

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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!

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Not begin assembling the final robot until today (3 days left of build):D

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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.

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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.

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258. Almost driving your Robot down stairs! (Oh wait, we did that twice in 1 week!) At least it didn't go down!!!

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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

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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.

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For those of you wondering about this item, locktite causes crazing of Lexan panels which leads to a failure of the panel.

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Thing is, that actually happened to us once :p

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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.

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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.

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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!

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I did this as well, only to smell the burning smell from our maple toped workbench. :yikes:

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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

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264. Assign a veteran driver's ex-girlfriend to the drive team.

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There is nothing that compares to the smell of burning flesh, especially when it is your own.

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Forget to secure your battery. throttle forward full speed.

Follow a security personnel with your robot.

Wrestle robot because you let one of your inexperienced drive team members take the wheel during a public outreach event.

Scare a baby with your robot...personally my fault.

Cut the x-shaped extruded aluminum thin on a table saw....would have hurt when it came flying out.

Place robot under any kind of pipe.

Allow students to acquire air compressor and pvc tubing...so many air powered marshmellows....

Forget your flag at school.

Scout for the entire length of competition weekend without sleep.

Drink coffee or energy drinks, except gatorade during all nighters.

Mount the cRio upside down....badly.

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At championships in 2012, hold the joystick forward while pounding on the glass because your robot is unresponsive. (Robot shoots forward across field and jams itself into opposing alliance bridge :deadhorse: ). It was, however, the fastest our robot ever went.

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Bash my head on the truss at mid-field. At least I hope it's only once. Ouch!