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This whole thread is reminiscent of ESPN's "Jacked Up" segment back in the day...and I miss that. At least back then, some people were getting seriously injured. Here, it's just robots.

One of my memories was back in 2004 (on 45) at Great Lakes Regional. Our gripper fell off of our arm in (I believe) the quarterfinals.



I'm somewhere in there helping the kid on the shoulders of the other one stay up there. I'd love to see a team do this without getting called out by a safety adviser these days.

This thread has some details about what happened: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=26723

Also...who misses the alliance captain bibs?

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Back in 2013 when I was on 1523 we were at Championships in our final match, we decided to take the unprotected feeder station. Our robot was beat into the wall so much out entire robot was bent in a diagonal position. Was crazy to watch being the human player.

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I noticed that, I've seen a lot of bots tip over or just plain get stuck on a platform. It happened to us, but our alliance partner gave us a shove to get us unstuck. We used some really small omni wheels so we didn't quite have the ground clearance

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Our frame last year sustained damage, not because I accidently ran it into the wall at full speed multiple times because I got distracted watching our ball, but because we put so much power into our mecanums that the forces made our frame start to fail in a couple places

We put in 1/8" aluminum L-channel in and even that warped (in just practice where we were not running into things!)

In 2012, we had a similar problem as the one team that had their whole shooter tower fall off. Our welds broke and we couldn't shoot, but a couple of screws and braces fixed that.

Also in 2012, we were going onto the bridge and another team (I think the martians, but I cannot remember) was getting balls from under the bridge, and we accidently when under the bridge, pushing it down on their robot, and hitting their power switch. I felt really bad afterwards, but also got a good laugh out of it too! What are the chances?

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Well, Michigan at least still uses green bibs/jerseys.

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exactly... that was painful to watch