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116. Not properly insulate the bottom of the gyro from the robot frame
117. Mount the cRIO is an area with serious danger of a falling lift (it still works...)
118. Use clippard air tanks. (Exploding a tank Thursday at Midwest regional makes the pits real quiet, even when it was only at ~30PSI)

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This happens WAY more than once.

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It works. We did this while building our arm, but we used a mill.

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Except HoF teams can reapply after 5 years now... so... ::rtm:: ?

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119. Mount the PD upside down, gravity works against the breakers.
120. Mount the radio inside a "U" shaped metal robot base to protect it.

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121. Assume a crimp connection is secure enough for any of your electronics.

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If you can pull the crimp off of the wire, it wasn't strong enough.

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122. Place a powered up PCB onto an exposed metal plate
123. Cut an unknowingly live PWM cable
124. Set a battery and battery charger on fire simultaneously in a lunch room (this was not my doing by the way)
125. Use Lunacy wheels
126. Try to power a crab drive with a servo

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127. Minibots. (surprised this hasn't been said yet)
128. Touch a part right after it's been welded
129. Use a hacksaw to cut a grove in a part on the lathe

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Hey! I think our CAD team does a fantastic job. I'm the only person on it, but I think we did okay...

130. Use Toughbox Nano Tubes.

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This^
131. Be the person who makes the bumpers. Everyone should experience it once, but only once
132. Touch a CIM after it just got burned out from being under too much stress and not think "hmm this might be hot"
133. Let someone decide to put mechanum wheels the wrong way so crawling is forward and normal is left/right for "strategic reasons" Even with gyro assisted driving it still never went in a straight line

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131. Waste a lot of programming time on vision processing only to have it not work at all at the event.

After one year of that, we learned our lesson.*

*Actually it took four years.

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n+1. Reach into that little area under the bandsaw platform, where little bits sometimes fall - while the saw is still moving...

n+2. Stay up until 4 AM a day you're volunteering at Championships to finish a project, only to realize the project isn't due until next week

n+3. The Kinect *ducks*

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Really? We did that this year and experienced no problems... Good to know, though!

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For the bumpers.. twice in a row man -.- This is what happens when you're one of 3 at the shop at 4:30am.

134. Request that your sleep deprived (over 24 hours) mentor drives you, the shooter, and other mentors to a scrimmage.
135. Show up to Championships with 2 lock up forms and no unlock form.
136. Let your code say that the shooter wheel is absolutely NOT supposed to come on when using rmps.
137. Zip tie washers to a wheel to try and balance it.
138. Put yellow casting putty into the holes of the same wheel to try and balance it out.
139. Have your driver station somehow end up in the scrap bin.