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were there robot related injuries on your team?
well of course working on heavy machinery can be dangerous... but has anybody on your team been hurt durring the years of working on the robot?
on our team 322, one serious, and one seriously funny injury occured this past year... the first was when our driver was opperating on a surface grinder to grind a washer down to fit in our transmission. well he finished grinding, but forgot to turn the machine off when dusting the table off. his middle finger went through the surface grinder and as a result, his nail was ripped off the finger, and he was rushed to the hospital. later that same day he returned to finish working on the transmission. his finger nail is now almost completely grown back. our second (funny) injury occured when we were trying to glue a tread to one of our wheels. we used epoxy, and to make sure it was on tight, we used a rubber surgical tube to hold it down. after wrapping the tube around the wheel about 20 times, we were trying to tie a knot in it, when it slipped and began spinning off the wheel. all we heard was slap slap slap, and our engineer was rolling over on the ground. it turns out that as it was spinning off the wheel, the tube hit him in the nuts. imagine getting hit in the nuts like 20 times in one second :D |
One of the alumni on our team cut himself on the band saw this year... he didn't attract any attention to himself or anything.
.. I'd SLIGHTLY hurt myself and cause a scene... maybe I'm just dramatic like that. |
Our robot attacked our programmer autonomously.
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we almost had a serious injury..
somehow.. our programming was screwed up and "joy_1_trigger" would run autonomous mode. (we had a special button elsewhere to run auto code for testing purposes). Well, we are sitting at glr, getting code set, testing wings.. people are walking by.. we drop one wing.. then attempt to do the other one.. well the downed wing snaps up, and the robot takes off. I was holding onto it to rest my hand .. then I was holding on for dear life. I was holding back our quite powerful bot (we shoved 25 around like nobody's business at nationals [practice rounds]). someone else, I think one of the engineers, jumps up to help out. While all this was going on, someone was walking by and nearly got sandwhiched between the bot and the cement wall. Whoever was helping me, reached in and hit the breaker button (turn off bot). After we realised what just happened, [auto code ran], we realised how lucky we were. The next part of the code was to back up. Which would have done very serious damage to me, my helper, the computer, table.. and a few other things/people. Later on, a similar problem occured but the tether cable popped out. The bot was about 4" from a person when she stopped. Last year, with 247, we had the robot doing a "safety glasses check" on one of the engineers. Could have stabbed out his eye. Just about every day I worked on the bot I got some kind of cut. Nearly had my throught cut (I did, but not too deep). Picture: here. Was worse than it seems. That's after i cleaned up the blood. |
Last year we were fixing up our robot from the last season. We had two claws (one one each side of the robot) that were just resting on each other up right. we were all standing around the robot. One team member decided to lift one side of the robot and the claws fell and hit one of our freshman full force in the head. We thought he was going to black out because it hit him so hard.
Another time i was drilling a small piece of metal, the drill slippe, and i ended up drilling my finger nail. It was cracked, and turned black and blue. My friend frank was helping me put rivets on the chain because they broke off. He sat one of them in the hole and the chain slid off the table. He went for it and that rivet went into his skin. It looked like it went in deep when he was pulling it out. .:ahh: :yikes: |
Well the few I can think of off hand.
St Louis Regional They were testing our wings, and whoever was operating lowered the wrong wing and clunked me on the head when I was talking to a judge. Pittsburgh Regional Our head teacher, Mr Railey was drilling a hole for a new lexan plate for our drive victors to be mounted on and he slipped and drilled right into his thumb. Blood shot all over the place, even on another engineers face :p Midwest Regional I was drilling a hole and I slipped and drilled into my thumb on Friday morning too. Kinda hurt, but it wasn't as bad as Mr Railey's thumb hole. Hey you can still see the outline of the scar too...its pretty cool :p |
A person who was supposed to be holding one of our robot's shuttles/arms did not hold it long and it fell upon my head when I was attaching a gripper/orienter device that I had just finished to the robot... hit me square on the forehead, I feel down, and it started bleeding a little. Kinda hurt a lot...
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NO SERIOUS INJURIES FOR 108. A FUNNY ONE WAS WHEN ONE OF MECH ENGINEERS CUT CUT HIMSELF AND WIPED IT OFF ON A RAG THAT WAS DRIPPING WITH OIL (I DONT THINK HE REALIZED.)
AT UCF WE WERE TESTING OUR WINGS AND ONE KID GOT KNOCKED RIGHT IN THE HEAD. ALSO AT UCF I ALMOST REAPEADTLY GOT KNOCKED AROUND BY TEAM 147's FLY-UP WINGS (SIMILAR DESIGN TO TEAM 71 BUT WIDER). THAT ABOUT IT. P.S. DID ANYONE GET LOCKED INTO THEIR TEAM'S CRATE CAUSE I DID. |
You know, a week back, I had a virus that disabled my ability to type and that sucked... took a while to fix. Be glad you have the ability to be "outspoken" with a caps lock key. :)
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Well our auto code pulled a random timer glitch and tried to run over our senior programmer, but I don't think he was hurt.
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Mr. Injury...
I actually think my record still holds strong...
Only human player to miss a match due to injury. 1996, Hexagon Havoc, between rounds I was fixing a plastic chain on our robot and put a screwdriver across my finger, resulting in mass bleeding. Missed our next round. People will tell you that could only happen to me! -Andy Grady |
this wasnt really during the season, so i dont know if it counts, but we had the robot at my sisters grad party, and i had never driven it before. one of the guys who basically was one of our main builders was setting it up for me to drive, and when he plugged it in i accidently knocked him over w/ it!! hm hm hm.....
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We had a running list on the blackboard....it became kind of a running joke. There is a whole section on it in our team video this year. Including a very funny part with the robot whacking Mr. Noble and Jim, our mechanic. Repeatedly. :D
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Our robot's arm almost took out our lead mentor from J&J...
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One of our team member almost lost his finger on a grander.
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When I was programming the auto, I was doing dead reckoning in bits and pieces, and when it finally worked to the end, i set it to do the full course, forgetting, of course, this meant continuing up the ramp forever. So after starting it, I went over there expecting it to stop, but it didn't, and ran me over, leaving a large gash on my forehead. The good news is, I stopped the robot.
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1) One of our students was using a table saw to cut off a strip of UHMW (Ultra High Molecular Weight) plastic that we use as a bearing for our arm. (The arm rotates in a hole in the plastic which is very slippery stuff.) Apparently the plastic got hot and stuck to the blade, and somehow it pulled his finger over to the blade. He had a lot of stitches in that finger. The plastic is great stuff, but be careful if you are ever cutting it. A stick with a notch to hold down and push the plastic (push stick) would have prevented the accident.
2) Our telescoping arm this year has two motors. One raises the arm and the other rotates it.  One day during testing, the arm came up but didn't rotate. The engineer who designed the arm, came forward to see what the problem was. At that point, the arm suddenly swung and hit him right between the eyes on the bridge of his nose. He was hurting for several days. Apparently there was a loose wire which became "un-loose". (After this event, there were some ideas of changing the robot's name from "Yoda" to something like "Franky", short for "Frankenstein II".) |
at the philly regional, our driver was working on something on the robot, i dont know what exactly, and her hand was under the robot. well, another girl pushed the button for the suction cups to go down and they came down on our drivers finger and smashed it. it was pretty bad. it swelled up, it was terrible and all this before the elimination rounds. but she still got through it, she's a trooper!! after that, it got infected and she had to go on medication for it, but it cleared up for nationals, so we were happy.
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it may not be an injury, and it may not be robot related, but it is related to FIRST... but i feel that Pres. Bush falling off the segway is the FUNNIEST "injury" to date.
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that was hilarous. i belive it was tues night on the late show they had the top ten things going through bush's mind as he fell off the segway. |
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I FOUND THE LIST HERE IT IS:
Top Ten Things Going Through President Bush's Mind At This Moment (Falling off a Segway) 10. "$@#$@#$@#$@# you, Al-Qaeda!" 9. "I'm sure Thomas Jefferson fell off his Segway every now and then" 8. "It looked so easy on 'The Jetsons'" 7. "I misunderestimated my center of gravity" 6. "Thank God no one got a picture of this" 5. "Only 4 days 'til Hulk! Only 4 days 'til Hulk! Only 4 days 'til Hulk!" 4. "$@#$@#$@#$@#, this thing would give Cheney, like, 3 heart attacks" 3. "Congratulations, Segway -- you just joined the axis of evil" 2. "To distract everyone, bomb the hell out of Syria" 1. "AHHHHHHHHH!" |
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I got an autonomous hit to the shins.
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this year, we share a build area with team 166.
well they had a prototype drive system set up for their auto and gearboxs. our robot, 151 was lying in pieces on the opposite end of our makeshift playing field. well 5 minutes before, 166 setup thier robot backwards and it drove into our driver. well, to say the least...he wasnt very happy...anyway.. well they set it up in the correct position for another try at it, and somehow, the code got reversed, so hte bot drove striaight backwards. so we are working quietly on the bot, when WHAM!! the robot hits tyler again, and he grabs the robot and flips it over, thinking that it will go the other way... well their auto mode at that point did the opposite thing IT CAME BACK AT TYLER AGAIN, its like it wouldnt stop! classic i didnt hurt myself this year, amazingly!! Greg |
Deburring tools are sharp, 2 one inch cuts that bled pretty badly for a cut.
A smashed finger by not being ready for a chuck to come out of a mill. On one of the ramps at nats, I tried to see how fast the cart would start going if I let it roll on one of the down ramps... I forgot I was in front of it, so therefore the lexan on the front gave me a 3 inch cut that I actually did not realize had bled until someone else pointed it out. Scar remains. I also was the human player.. Put down two bins down fairly hard. Misjudged distance to ground. Head going down, bin bouncing up. Head pushing bin back down to the other bin. Bin not going any farther. $lip{condition}="cut and bleeding"; Surprisingly, the arm for our robot, that has a very major pinch/cut off finger joint did not claim any casualties. |
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Well, we had a few injuries this year. I have to say, one of them was me.
To start with my injury, I would like to thank the transmissions that we used. Well, i was assembelling one of them, and i hooked it up to a battery pack we have (basically a bosch drill housing with wires out the end, that we use to provide power for testing purposes). And, i was running one of the motors to see if i had it assemblled correctlly. I was also holding it in my hand while i did this. This would be the mistake. One of the gears slipped out, and caused a chain to swing freely. Well, my thumb got caught in that, and i lost the top of my thumb. Everything grew back by the time that i needed to use it. Took about a month. A more serious injury happened to a guy named Mac. While we were testing our arms at Arizona, he was supporting them. One of our advisors was driving the robot. Anyways, Mac got his fingers caught between stages one and two of our arms. If you haven't seen out robot, theyres not a lot of clearance between those stages, an theyres a lot of power driving them. Mac got his hand crushed pretty bad. His fingers were black and blue for quite a while. The other serious on that i can think of was this guy on our team named Joe. Everyone remember that really huge loading ramp at nats? And, if you've ever walked through our pits, you've seen our 1/2 ton snapon toolbox. Well, joe procedded to push this up that ramp. Needless to say, he threw out his back, and nearly killed himself and others when he lost controll. He spent the night in the Arizona State Hospital, and was released later the next day. We all need to remember to be careful at these competitions. Danger lies in the most unexpected (and comical) places. I've got a picutre of it here. Good Job Joe. |
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Now, on to our injuries. Only two that I can think of. First, a freshman was messing around with the grinder (grinding a tiny piece of aluminum) and ground the front of his left index finger off. At least this year (was a freshman) I knew common sense. The only other one (not totally robot related) is that a senior popped out her knee at the Arizona team social. |
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In Houston while we were fixing our robot after a match, i was changing the battery which just happens to be under the arm, so we raised it all the way up while i changed the battery... after i put the new battery in someone bumped the table and our nice 25 pound arm came down on my head. Put me on the floor for a few minutes...
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Ahh! The arm robots! lol. Practice field at nationals, the one near robot registration and safety check; I'm standing over there, about 15-20 minutes before pits close, with a half-autonmous robot. We've got all the code for it done and we're setting the values (Run motor at x speed for y cycles). 108, along with about 10-15 other teams there, are all getting auton mode finished. Everyone is being about as arrogant as can be, including myself (regrettably), and total chaos has ensued there. For the most part, teams usually give a loud warning before running their robot, usually in the form of "GET OUT THE WAY, We're gonna run it!". Well, we really need our code working, so as I'm holder-of-the-almighty-tether for the moment, im standing behind the robot checking for that weird nosie it just made. Have I painted the picture of total chaotic environment yet? Heh, next I hear the team behind me say "Okay, we're gonna run it, look out". The thoughts in my head are, "alright...im not near the ramp, go ahead and run it, not anywhere near me". I don't however, realize that its an arm bot. They warn me about 2 more times, say "oh well, run it!". That arm comes flying at me, as I finally realize why they warned me. I duck with about a fraction of a second to spare, JUST avoiding it. lol, I was freaked for a second, laughed for another 2, then went back to our robot.
Anyone remember almost knocking out a 108 member? We've got white shirts with a dark blue top of the shirt, with a big pantehr on the front. At the time, someone from their team got a picture of it and offered to send it to me. I sorta was distracted by our robot, and didnt get his e-mail addy. Anyone have that pic? I'd love to have it :D Injury-wise: 108 always has em, but we're also known for our "narrowly escaping" maneuvars. Now, we're a technology program at our high school, so none of us are in the greatest of shape. Now, imagine us, moving at speeds beyond we've ever moved, to avoid things flying at us. We've caught wings, drive trains, and various other things juss in the nick of time. One more to add to this horrendously long post. Our robot, on start up, had a glitch for a while. This glitch would cause the robot on every start up to run the first cycle of autonmous (A glitch no one understood, but seemed to just "disappear" one day). Our mechanical engineer would, of course, be standing in front of the robot watching the drivetrain EVERY time we started it. Everytime it would jump foreward about 2-4 inchs and just about take him out....and evertime he'd look up and say "WHO DID THAT??". We'd then explain, for the nth time, that it was auton, and not us. hehe...If I think of more, I'll post them..If I'm not banned by everyone for the length of this post. Yeahhh... |
Some of the stories on this post are cracking me up!
I thought of a really good one dealing with the autonomous mode for our team this year. We had a basic program that we were testing out at our playing field. A first-year volunteer on our team, fondly known as Uncle Gary, was helping some students... We connected the tether to the robot to load the program onto it, but when it was done, instead of us having time to unplug it, there was a slight glitch and it started moving as soon as it had the program. The lap top was still connected and was resting on top of one of the totes. But the program didn't work accurately at the time, and the robot started spinning around in circles. :yikes: Hahaha- I can still see Uncle Gary grabbing the computer and chasing the robot around while everyone else scattered! Finally someone was able to turn the robot off and no one was hurt. I don't remember any accidents happening where someone really got injured, we just have some pretty funny stories. I have one more for you...;) Last year, me and my friend were working on our robot's ball pick-up, and directly above us on a flight of stairs one of our engineers was standing talking to another adult. He wasn't paying attention and he accidentally dropped an open water bottle on our heads! It was actually really funny, because at first we didn't notice where it came from.. The other adults kept joking around with him about the students having to wear hard hats to work under him! Oh, good times! :D |
Well, we had a constant fear of what was essentially a guillotine on this year's robot. then there were the arms that swung too fast and almost beheaded our electrical female. Of course the autonomous code managed to assault everything within reach.
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I deffinately wasn't fond of making the dumb corner protectors to attach the lexan to this year. We used a really crappy sheet metal, and well.. in the process.. I was just carrying it once and walked over to the table to realize my thumb was gushing with blood.
Last year was even more dangerous... our goal grabber arms were pneumatic.... and well... there was a LOT of force behind them. I accidently rotated and closed an arm on my leg at a demo.. and well.. there is still noticeable damage when I'm playing soccer :) |
yeah, so apparently with our control system:
when you disable the bot when the wings are out, it brings the wings back in (piston powered wings to be specific). Then, when you enable it again (assuming power hasnt been cut off to either the OI or RC) the wings pop out again. I kinda forgot about that minor detail. got nailed right below the knee with one of the wings. And I know its not robot related, but its still funny. One of my fellow team members was trying to knock a welded piece off of our robot using a rubber mallet. He kind of let go at the end of his swing and the rubber hammer flew 20ft and hit me about an inch from my heart. I ran when he said "what about a sledge hammer?" |
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[b]this year, we share a build area with team 166. well they had a prototype drive system set up for their auto and gearboxs. our robot, 151 was lying in pieces on the opposite end of our makeshift playing field. well 5 minutes before, 166 setup thier robot backwards and it drove into our driver. well, to say the least...he wasnt very happy...anyway.. well they set it up in the correct position for another try at it, and somehow, the code got reversed, so hte bot drove striaight backwards. so we are working quietly on the bot, when WHAM!! the robot hits tyler again, and he grabs the robot and flips it over, thinking that it will go the other way... well their auto mode at that point did the opposite thing IT CAME BACK AT TYLER AGAIN, its like it wouldnt stop! classic Greg - the amazing thing about your story is that the robot wasn't in autonomous mode - I was driving it......:p |
Here's a way to get plenty of robot injuries...
If you used sensors to locate and destroy stacks and did it fairly well... You can have games of seek and destroy. Buy some of that reflective tape and stick it onto people's ankles... And if you have a fast robot, and if they don't realize they have the tape on, you can get some good laughs. Just don't do this without an intelligent person at the kill switch. Don't want anybody to get hurt. As for the injuries, once while cutting some bars with a radial arm saw, the brushes started sparking like crazy and burnt me. At Silicon Valley regionals, I was drilling mounting holes in our plexi-glass side panels and the drill got my finger, and it was really deep, like a 1/4 inch deep. It didn't bleed too much though. And our pneumatics are sort-of spontaneous, and our extending elevator got a guy working on it pretty hard. |
Not quite robot related, but while building a practice ramp after the release of the Stack Attack game, I was nailing something in place and my foot hit an easel that had been propped up against the wall. The easel started falling towards a student who had been nailing another piece in, someone yelled heads up, so naturally, the student turned his head upwards, and got scraped right along the bridge of the nose with the top of the easel. It was all fun and games afterwards, but it left a mark for a month or so that I had to deal with everytime I saw the particular student.
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I think total over the season I got hit with the wings about a dozen times. However, the funniest of these was before we slowed down the speed of the wings and we were testing out our autonomous code. I was trying to get the robot to correctly follow the line and forgot about the part of the code that caused the wings to drop. One of the wings, of course, hit me right on top of the head. The person driving at the time frantically tried to raise the wings, but hit the button once too many times and smacked me in the head again after raising them. Then after raising the wings, he unplugged the OI causing the wings to revert to the default state which at that time was down. So I managed to get smacked in the head by the wings three times in about 5 seconds.
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We were testing the auton mode on our robot out in the parking lot of the school, and we had the robot on tether. My teammate was holding the cord too close to the robot and when the robot went to turn he pulled it a bit, just enough to have the robot headed straight for him. Needless to say he went running and the robot got the best of him :rolleyes:
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My favorite injury to a team mate happened during a strategy session.
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I got an injury at IRI... but it really wasn't robot related. Somehow during the HP competition I cut my hand on a piece of container... funny, you'd think I'd get injured by the robot :confused:
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the bolt that did this whizzed over the heads of 4 engineers, Was this tytus's Fault?.... YES!, Did he learn his lesson?... (Do not Launch Steel bolts out of Pnewmatic Projectile weapons inside the shop) YES!
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when I was on the Xcats in '02, our bot was designed with a spinning wheel that shot the soccer balls up to 20 feet through the air into the goal.
We had a prototype of it set up on a bench, and we setup a couple PVC pipes as a feeder - we could put 10 soccerballs on the feeder, then let them go, and they would roll down and the spinning wheel would shoot them into the goal at 1/2 second intervals - it was really cool to see. so we were trying to perfect this shooter, and had rigged a tach to the wheel that we monitored with an oscilloscope. It took two people to hold the tach against the spinning wheel, operate the scope, and load a ball onto the feeder so we could see how much the wheel slowed down as it fired each ball. one time I was doing this with another engineer, who didnt know how to use the scope. The wheel was spinning, and I was holding the tack against it with one hand, and holding the ball on the feeder back with the other, and the engineer asked me how to trigger the scope? Push the single button which one? the single sweep button this one? No [I reach for scope with one hand while leaning over the shooter]... this BAM! It took me a second to realize I had let the ball go, and shot myself in the face with a soccerball point blank. It took me a few more seconds to figure out if had shot my eye out, and where my glasses were. no permanate injury, but I have no doubt that robot tried to kill me! |
myself and the driver had millions of cuts and scrapes from lifting the robot. At West Michigan I remember looking at my arms on Friday and seeing bloody little cuts all over my arm.
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No injuries on my team... however, we did injure a few robots due to our wedge and powerful drive trains. Many robots tried to ram ours and... well... they didn't succeed.
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LOL, a good friend of mine grinded his finger. It wasn't that serious, just made him pay attention to what he was doing a little more. Also, i have little scars everywhere from welding. I would get frustrated, along with my welding mentor, and we would both get careless. A burn here, burn there. We would forget which corner we had just welded and would grab it. Good Times. :cool: It was really frustrating then, but now that i look back on it, LOL, we were major losers. :D
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recently at the robot rodeo, are chain fell off one of are wheels and i was trying to put a new master link on it. Well all was going good till i was putting the pin on and my hand slipped drving the pin into my thumb so of course i yelled soem choice words and it didnt stop bleeding for awhile and i decided to get stitches when i got home (that was about 4 hours latta) waiting that long and not getting it cleaned enough caused the finger to get infected which in the cut they put 2 stiches so i had to go back to the hospital and they made another cut to drain the puss out of my finger :rolleyes: word of the wise if it looks like it needs stiches, go get them
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one thing Ive learned over the years, whenever you work on something mechanical
you are not 'done' until you have smeared some blood on it. for example, if you are working on your car, and you dont bash a knuckle or cut yourself, dont put the tools away when you think you are done, cause the car wont be right and when you do cut yourself, make sure you get some blood on the machine, or it wont count, and you will have to do it all over later. :v) |
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Yes we have had our cuts and scrapes here and their thankfully no serious injuries!
If anything has serious injuries it would have to be our robot. Did you know you can dent lexan? Did you know you can puncture lexan? Did you know you can paint lexan by scrubing up with MOE? Did you know our robot was dropped by a shipping company? This drop would have to be the most damaging thing that our 2003 bot has seen. This bent our frame and broke a whole bunch of stuff including the operater interface controls. I guess you can say our robot has almost been through Battle Bots. This is due to being in 4 FIRST competitions and 5 off-season events and it will be seeing its 6th off-season event this Saturday. This will probably its retirement party.... |
Um... well I was almost beat up by the students for breaking the drill motor as soon as we got it this year?? Does that count??
It fell apart right in my hands.... I swear!!! There were little gears all over the place!! |
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Last year our robot bite me almost every time i worked on it. But the worst injury came when we were test auton mode we didn't quite have the code right and it took a bite out of the ramp! It took out a robot size chuck, but what does one expect when working with a hammerhead!
( I think it also gave someone a rug burn while pulling them across the carpet ):D |
There was one really comical one for 159 that TatSak missed...
We were having a Colorado exhibition to promote new teams in order to get a regional for this year (success!). Anyways, we were having a little trouble with our drive code for some reason. Well, good ol' TatSak pushed the joystick, it accelerated perfectly with the stick, and failed to stop when he released the joystick. Well, at our somewhat rudimentary field, there were no barriers on the edge of the field. What we did have on the edge of the field was a cameraman from FOX NEWS! Well, I, with my most unpracticed football skills, gallantly tackled the beast and got the power switch, but not before suffering numerous gashes on my shins and fingers. One on my shin bled quite profusely, causing me to have to change socks... |
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if the bot goes out of control, you can simply lift the drivewheels off the ground :^) |
Well, at the beginning of the season, we were role playing with people as robots. We wanted to see if throwing boxes would do anything for us. Problem is, we did not have the official boxes yet, so we used hard plastic crates...VERY hard! Well, the kid across the field from me threw it up and I heard PAUL LOOK OUT! I looked up and BAM! Right in the face. It hit at the bridge of my nose, but I didn't break anything.
The big one happened at the Cleveland Regional. Out arms have chain and sprockets to open them, and they open in Autonomous mode. Well, a girl had her hands in there and the Auto mode got switched on. It sucked her finger in between the chain and the sprocket. (Anyone there probably heard her scream) Thank goodness it was still loose, because if it were tightened, it would have taken her finger right off. |
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As for injuries, I haven't had any serious ones.... yet... -Nationals 2002- I was doing an "infamous" fasteners check on one of MOEHawks wings when the long mailing tube (8' or something close to) which was full of extra aluminum to repair the wings fell over and hit me right between my shoulder blades. It sure stunned me... and left quite the bruise too. Advil became my best friend for the rest of the competition. -2003 Commonwealth Awards- Both MOE and the Lunatechs were lucky to be invited to this event at the Hotel Dupont, where Dean was recieving his award and doing press confrences. We had a need for some Duct Tape to hang something... so i dug out my roll (I AM known as Ducky for a reason) but realized that i had grabbed the roll which is impossible to rip by hand. No problem... I always have my multi-tool too... so I pulled it out, cut a few pieces. I was closing the blade, when someone bumped into me. The very sharp blade on my multi-tool closed; but caught about 2.5-3 inches of my wrist while doing so. I just barely kept back the naughty words as I made for the snack table to get some napkins or something. of course being the Hotel Dupont, they only had cloth napkins. I felt so bad bleeding all over two of them. Luckly my blood clots quickly, so I didn't need to get stiches, but I used quite a few bandaids to try and cover it till it healed enough that it stopped opening at random times. Aside from that it has just been random cuts and scrapes from building or close encounters with the file cards. I am much worse with "non-dangerous" substances like Dykem and Anti-seize. |
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I believe my friend Brad here is mistaken. as some of you know we hve gum-rubber wheels, which are not the easiest to cut as our alumni Cliff found out. It involed a: -drill press- $1,000(?) -hole saw- $100 -1' gum-rubber- $80 -!Hey, look out! - free -and one really priceless bruise on Cliff's stomach |
Okay, so, Imagine that on one side of the Venice High Autoshop yard, about eight people are building this cool ramp that a robot is supposed to go up. Now imagine that on the other side of the yard, a certain programmer (cough cough ME) is testing an autonomous routine. Now visualize this robot (Which is from 2002 and therefor has a harpoon on the front to grab goals with) flys forward at top speed and executes a flawless right turn. The programming team rejoices! The people standing on top of a bridge that has yet to be held together and collapses with them on top of it, however....
Additionally, we learned that when you don't initialize PWM outputs, they default to zero. Zero, by coincidence, is FULL REVERSE. Engineers don't like getting hit in the shins by a 120 lb robot that was turned on only to go flying towards them in FULL REVERSE. |
Ok...anyone else have someone DROP your team's robot on you? I was trying out for comp. team, I think, last year and as a requirement you had to lift our robot. Well...Joe S. and I are lifting this thing fine until he doesn't give me a cue to lift and proceeds to go on without me. Nonetheless, the robot tips and I get a wire brush cleany thing (I forget what they were but this was on MOEHawk and we used them to stay attached to the floor) in the face/top of my head. OW! It hurt but I'm a girl and it was all guys so I sucked it up and acted as if nothing had happened.
As far as accidents go however...none have really occured to our team however....there was the elevator incident. *smirks* Some of you might know this story, because someone must have posted it last year, but anyway....we were at Nationals in Huston in a hotel I thought was...well...old. Too old. The elevators scared me but who cared...we were having fun. It was a little over curfew when all of sudden I hear a lot of noise from the hallway. Out I go...walk a few steps and blink. My team is crowded around the elvator doors...close elvator doors. Oook...they've all lost it. Then I hear what I had to die laughing at...my mentors are stuck inside, pounding on the door to the rest of us outside. It was great. They were stuck in there for twenty minutes I think. They even tried prying the doors open which was...well...odd. No injuries occured but...wow....there could have been! Also, I think one of our students, Chris, ended up smacking his head in the shower really badly when a couple other students squirted him. I forget exactly how that happened though. |
Yeah, minor scrapes and cuts and such.
At the Claverack meeting (local energy company, we always have a booth at their anual meeting) (some 222 people were there, but I don't think they heard about this), Sean was driving Chuck V around for everyone to look at, and he wanted to give me a hug with it. Now, it's not that easy to control how much the arms sqeeze, so I was walking away from it backwards. I eventually hit a picnic table, so I was down on that. Sean kept driving the bot closer to me, and the corner of some metal plate on the bottom of it scraped my leg. It was a thin cut, but about 3 inches long. It bled a lot. Funny thing is that earlier that day, Rob threw a ball at the bot and it popped and was destroyed. I found out it was the same corner or a metal plate. |
Not a robot injury, but a funny hotel one
At he buckeye regional on friday night, a few of us were hanging out in one of the rooms watching a movie and generally goofing around. Well one kid on our team, Bat Boy, (well quite a few, but he was being particularily annoying that night) was talking and being generally annoying, so our driver (who is about double the size of the talker) decided to jokingly throw him out of the room and close the door. Unknown to Bat Boy, our driver then backed up so he could get back in, however Bat Boy ran and threw his entire weight into the door, which then slammed into our drivers forehead, leaving a huge gash right above his eye. He probably should have gone to get stitches and it was bleeding everywhere, but he didnt want to be at the hospital till 3 am cause he had to drive the next day so they just butterflyed it. We still make fun of Bat Boy about that Allison |
Heh this one is kinda funny.
A few weeks ago at Ford Sweet Repeat I was training one of the rookie kids. He pretty much got everything down early and eventually he was able to reset the robot between matches like the veteran pit crew. Although late in the day he was changing batteries when someone flipped the 120amp breaker switch on. He had one side of the battery disconnected completely and the other was still barely touching. Somehow (Im still not sure how) one of his fingers closed the open circuit and he got zapped. Luckily it wasn't bad though. I still can hear to this day what he said after that happened. Something like "Oh <profanities>!!!" |
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Oh...yes...only recently Chris, the same one thrown into the bathtub, had to have his hair cut using *I think* wire cutters. I'm not sure how if got that but a rather large peice of duct tape was stuck on Chris hair and to itself. A few members tried to remove it but it was impossible so we ended up cutting it off. Fun times...fun times. Oh yes...Ask Steven on our team what happens when you anger a girl on your team who has sharp nails. Heh. Steven went home alot of nights with cuts across his arm cause "someone" scratched the daylights out of him for being generally annoying. |
Our robot hasn't injured anyone on the team, but it did run over someone.
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hmm... during the 2003 season my finger was nearly removed when the miter saw malfunctioned while i was cutting extrusion for the robot frame.
that saw was no good. that happened two or three times before it happened to me. i was just the first to get hurt. i have a nice scar from it, as well as the offending bit of extrusion. unfortunately, no one thought to take a picture just after it happened, so i have no gory photos to show :/ <edit> in 2002, our robot took it upon itself to start driving after our programmer uploaded the new program. the ball basket also fell, and hit a team member on the bridge of the nose, causing it to bleed </edit> |
Paul Luffel was cutting some Lexan or simliar material (I don't recall exactly what it was,) last year with a Dremel. He ended up somehow putting the Dremel in his finger, cutting a 1/8-inch or so deep groove into it, and cauterizing the wound with the friction of the cutting disk. It was actually kind of cool, though it's not an experience I'd like to go through.
Three of us got stabbed by a hot soddering iron last year. The only ROBOT-inflicted injury I can remember is one of our alumni tightenining down the nut on the frame of our bot, and the piston from the pneumatics slammed down pretty much on top of the nut. Someone, not paying attention, released the solenoid and squished his finger. It wasn't broken or anything, luckily. |
Over the course of the build period, some of the metal on the robot will end up in you, and some of your skin will end up on the robot!
Two years ago, (zone zeal competition) our robot had a 50lb hopper that it would fill with balls, and then the hopper would get raised to the top of a goal, and then the balls would get dumped in. The hopper was lifted via scissor lift. SCISSOR lift! We were nearing the shipping deadline, and things were getting pretty crazy. I was installing some lock collars on the leadscrew mechanism that actuated the scissor lift. At the same time, another member was removing the pins that joined the scissors to the leadscrew so he could work on the hopper (which was 6ft up in the air at the time). I had told him to make sure to block up the hopper before he removed the pins, but unfortunately for me, he forgot. All of a sudden, I hear "holy %&*#" the robot jerks, and I realise that the hopper is decending VERY quickly, so I attempted to pull my arm out from between the lower pair of scissors, but I wasn't fast enough, and my pinky finger got caught between two scissor sections. I don't really remeber much except for white hot pain, and I think I said a few things made up mostly of four letter words! After I finished screaming, I looked at my finger, and it was like one of those bugs bunny cartoons- the tip was almost completely flat and bleeding alot! I ended up at the hospital, but amazingly, I didn't need stitches or anything, the finger was just really crushed, and after a few days, it "re-inflated" back to normal, minus a pair of deep gashes. I still have the scars, and the nail still looks a little wierd. |
i do believe while we were having driver training someone almost ran over mr. gregory (our advisor), but other than that i can't remember any REAL injuries. i did cut my hand open on a rough piece of metal, but i don't really count that.
we did slam into a pole in our annex and leave some black tire marks on the carpet though ;) |
Yes, well our Robot Actually Ran over someone, up and over.
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My team and I were fooling around with the bot, practicing driving it around and scaring people in the halls. So i got the bright idea to ride it. I crouched on top and it sped off. Then the driver gets the bright idea to drive forward and back really quickly to try to throw me off. It almost worked, but i stayed on.... till i looked back at him. He then proceeded to gun it, placing me firmily on my back. Billy claims to have heard the thud.
At least he didnt back up over me lol. Almost forgot.. no story time is complete without Jimmy! Freshman year he cut off his thumb. Entirly...severed. I wasnt there to see it but i bet it wasnt fun. He got it reattached, but we used to tease him about his 'bionic thumb' Such a loving group we are. |
who remembers post-qualifying-rounds at epcot years ago?? Remember when we'd all drag our robots with people standing on them!! that was good times!
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In houston this year we participated in Robot Cart Pulls outside after closing ceremonies.. good times!! lol What you would do is hook up your robot to your team's cart and pull or push yourself down the "raceway" and see who was fastest..
It was awesome after a hard weekend of competing!! No injuries that I know of came from that... lol |
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last year before we shipped the robot... (once the robot was done) we were driving it around... unfortunately the ramp we had at motorola didnt have the railings on the side... and somebody was driving it off the ramp... one of our team member (mike) jumped in to catch the robot.. he had a big scratch on his hand... but it wasnt really a bad injury...
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oooooo... it's painful simply reading throught this thread...
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Last year I smacked our president in the face autonomously(the goal was to drive along the line until it saw something in front of it close, then move the arm around and pray it knocked at 10pt ball off), but someone walked in front of the banner sensor and it clipped his neck pretty good.
THis year I dropped our 50 pound steel hoss of an arm on my head twice (once while uncrating, once while recrating), and had our elbow joint in the arm with our original massive gripper smack me in the head... And people wonder whats wrong with me *twitch* |
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While unpacking the robot i stood up and bumped my head on our very bright pink claw. I'm lucky- that's the closest thing to an injury I've had(except for a killer headache from sleep deprivation). Last year someone almost cut their finger off with the band saw. A few days later while driving down the long, very steep hill that is the street that leads to our school, the same guy hit a light post.
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oh man one year, I wasn't on the team yet, but one night in the shop it was either Aidan or Ben who got shocked by the battery...and I can remember last year my grandfather was using the belt sander and nicked his nail on it, and my friend Ian and I were in shock, because right after he started using it like a nail file to fix it, the belt sander is now fondly known as "Ed's Nail Salon". but other than that, only scratches from lifting the robot up.
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but... some one hit the joystix to try to stop motor buzzing but insted or hiting the joysticks he hit the boom down switch and BAM nailed him right in the head. i felt bad. |
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We have a kid on the team that drives a yellow lancer and we were working with the camera out side and the robot chased his car. It was pretty funny.
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The only kind of bad one that I can think of was when I was sawing a piece of plywood with a handsaw. The saw slipped, and cut through my thumbnail down pretty far. It bled quite a lot, but it's all healed now. The other Kate on our team got sliced by a cut bolt from our wings about halfway up her forearm. It wasn't a deep cut, but it was in an unfortunate position.
I think our team got more than it's share of cuts from our robot this year because the cut-off screws from our wings were so sharp. I mutilated two pairs of tights working on the robot before I changed out of my uniform. My mother wasn't happy. I am probably forgetting something, but that's it for now. |
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during my freshman year, after helping wire GhettoBot, i decided to plug in a batter to see if any of my wiring actually worked the way it was supposed to. well, i didnt bother to check if the switch was on for some odd reason (which it turns out it was) so while i was sitting on the top of a table with our little wooden robot, i moved to plug in the battery and suddenly there was this sparkly flash! thankfully i didnt get hurt, nor did a friend of mine who just so happened to be walking past me at that time... but needless to say, i was banned from plugging in batteries for the rest of the build season.
at robot demos we generally let children drive the robot for a little (with guidance)... well.. generally bad things happen when we allow kids to extend our arm all the way (11 feet, mind you), because once its extended, they feel the need to move the arm, putting everyone in an 11 foot radius in danger, since when you move the arm just barely, it puts the center of gravity out of whack, and things come down, fast. thankfully no one has been hurt, but the first time i drove Roccobot 2k4 at a demo i was banned from being the arm operator because i had a bad habit of coming waaay to close to spectators. at a recent demo there was this specifically rambunxious little boy who wanted to try base driving, so i figured why not, as long as i had my hands on the controls as well it wouldnt be that big of a deal... NOT. the second i said "sure" he grabbed the controls before i could yell "watch out" to those standing by out pit crew chief who was explaining something about the robot by the robot at the time, and we ran into her ^^; shes okay, no real battle scars, but at nationals last year, she did scare us all in the stands when she held up a bloody rag. she hadnt gotten hurt by the robot, just had a freak-of-nature nosebleed, but we had a running joke that she got in a fight with one of the other teams. none of those are really injuries though.. but this one is. this past build season while i was doing driving practice with our current human player (originally we had planned to try out to become the pink team's first female drive team, she being base driver and i tower operator) we had our human-player wannabe's run around doing Field Reset. we only had about 2 or 3 PVC tetras at a time on average (although we started off with more, while i was learning how to drive, i managed to break most of them by being less than gentile hand having a bad habit of dropping them) so our human player(s) would run around collecting the tetras as soon as we stacked them and placing them on our ghetto automated tetra station. well, one day, while our extremely hyper and impatient HP-wannabe was grabbing for a tetra immidiately after Maia and i had stacked it on top of a goal, he got swiped across the chest by our hook, because unfortuantly Maia had turned in the direction directly towards him, not away from him. he got a huge scrape across his chest (through his shirt!) from it, and although we felt bad, it still was kind of his fault for coming for the tetra on the same side as the goal as the robot.. hence we made the rule: Go to the opposite side of a goal to retrieve a tetra! ...and you can obviously see why neither of us ended up as drivers this year. :p ...on a random note... there are a lot of wing-related injuries! be careful everyone! ;) you are not immortal! |
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This past build season, for some reason, I developed the reputation of being able to hurt my self. OK, I did manage "knick" my self several times, and then there was that incident where I nearly pinched my finger while I was trying to shift a temporary tensioner on some chain, but nothing too serious. Now I've got our safety captain either trying pay off the paramedics to follow me or at least tape a small first aid kit to myself.
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Last year during the FIRST season, someone was testing the drive train on the robot and managed to drive over my brother.
This year, during another competition my team participates in, one of our mentors was helping us load things in the trailor and while attempting to tie something down with a bungee cord, it snaped and the hook hit him in the face and barely missed his eye. We took him to the hospital right away...and now he is all better! |
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I now have a scar on my ankle from when the corner of our testbot (a kitbot) swiped me at roughly 8 feet per second. This just proves that going full speed with the joysticks coded incorrectly is a bad idea.
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Our auton story, with the camera. The day we finally have camera-driving as the autonomous mode on our testbot, 3 programmers, all named Josh, are wearing green. The first instance, where it seemed to not be working, and then suddenly noticed me, had me dive out of the way, and someone quickly hitting the switch. It was almost caught on camera, so we decided to stage it again and record it. This time, the bot doesn't notice me...it notices the other (unaware) Josh. As we test later...the third Josh suddenly walks in...but we were...prepared. Our pneumatically folding arm was a bit of a problem, as well as our grabber. A mentor got hit on the head in the early days of testing it, and had a bit of bleeding...wasn't really a problem. Everyone wears hardhats while working on the bot since. One instance of the arm falling at high speed was saved by soft safety goggles. Boing! |
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I had an injury this year because of my own stupidity. Some guys were cutting some 8020 extruded aluminum for our arm with a hacksaw (we're too poor to buy a ban saw) and they were taking forever. Well, time was getting short as well as my temper so I asked them what was taking so long. It ended up being that they had to make two cuts to completly cut through the aluminum and one was about an 1/8" off. The aluminum was in the vice and they had wasted quite some time trying to get the hacksaw to cut through sideways. I got angry and just grabbed the aluminum and snapped it off downwards with my hands curled around it. Well, in my anger I forgot to turn the vice away from the table so I ended up smashing my finger between the aluminum and some hefty 2x10's. I lost all the skin on the inside of my first ring finger knuckle as well as gained some nice hairline fractions to go along with it.
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i have to say reading this most of the injuries are happening to the programmers, theres something funny about that...any who my story, i got my shoelace caught in last years robot drivetrain while repairing it, but i ripped it out before it did any damage.
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Last year, one of our mentors was using a bench grinder to grind down the edge of some aluminum extrusion, and wasnt using a vise grips to hold the aluminum. He slipped and ground half of his thumb off on the wheel. It was pretty bad.
Beside that injury, except for a few tools being dropped on peoples feet or having hands filled with metal slivers, nothing too serious. |
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Hmmm I remember in 2003 before the shipping date, the team was testing the robot and autonomus. I was sitting in the carpet and the driver suddenly drive foward too much and rammed my legs.
And this year. I was testing the arms of the robot and the arm swinged fast slamming the robot (no damage done). I was standing in the front and i dodged the arm but it went back down and hit my back. Hahahaha it didn't hurt much anyways |
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Okay, so not so many ROBOT related injuries this year...
Our arm op, Shaivya, did get his head bashed by our arm though. And then he got glow stick liquid in his eye. Looooooots of fun :rolleyes: |
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Okay, it is really embarrassing when you have to go to the first aid person two times during a regional when you are the safety captain. The even more depressing thing was that it wasn't from the robot! The first time I got hurt was when I was carrying the team's control box. The fiberglass or whatever was so sharp it cut through my arm. I have a nice scar from it, although it didn't hurt at all. All after that incident I was in the pit, with a file, making sure no sharp edges existed, ANYWHERE!. My second injury was when I fell down the stairs and twisted my ankle. That wasn't a surprise. For some reason stairs just don't like me and I fall down them constantly... Lone Star: I was in the pit talking to three judges along with a few members of the team. Everyone else was working on the robot since they heard a scraping sound (ALL THAT NOISE CAME FROM ONE STUPID NUT!!). So we were doing the "delay of game, hey look at this" dance with the judges. 2 were the all around judges and the other was in charge of safety. I notice the team to the right of us had their robot slowly creeping closer and closer to us. Being the paranoid person I was I moved away the teammate that the robot was right behind. I'm glad I did because a second later the robot took off and attacked a freshman that was working on our bot. I'm not sure if it was on auto. mode (since we are covered in green) or if the joystick was uncalibrated but it sure gave us a shock. Luckily a few people including myself jumped on the robot and pulled it back before it actually hurt him, although we did have a quite shaken freshman on our hands. |
Do be careful
2004: One guy grabbed a soldering iron to move it - it had only been unplugged a moment before and naturally he grabbed the business end. My son lost a bit of skin on the big belt sander when the piece grabbed - it could have been much worse.
2005 - I think I slightly cracked my thumb this year. I was cutting aluminum angle on a compound mitre saw. When backing up out of the cut, it caught the small cut piece and launched the piece I was firmly holding down into the air. It whacked my thumb but good - stung like crazy. Was sore for about 1 1/2 months. Do be careful out there. |
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We seem to have injuries that don't really hurt all that much, but still are funny. One that has made a freshman on our team famous was when he tripped in front of the entire Sacramento regional. flat on his face.
Another was the the silicon valley regional. Our battery guy was running down the stairs to our pit to replace the battery when he tripped, and his ankle decided it would crap out on his landing. Needless to say, others on the team had to follow the paramedics to find out which batteries were charged. |
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I have a couple from the this year. The stupidest one ever was when i was changing the type of bit holder for our lathe, and the knob at the end of the handle just shattered into 2 pieces and i got cut pretty bad because it was sharp plastic. I wasnt even pushing on the handle hard, it was realy low quality plastic. Another realy stupid one was when i got tap magic (for cutting aluminum) all over my hands by accident and i didnt realise it was a skin irritent until the next day, it went away in a few days though :] . Another potentialy very bad injury almost happened to my friend, he was working under the robot and the stand collapsed. I was the only person that had enough common sense to grab the robot and lift it off him, it took like 30 seconds of yelling at people to help get it off him! Thank god he didnt get hurt.
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Team 836 almost killed our lead mentor, well the robot almost did. We were testing the autonomous mode and the robot was supposed to go down the hall and turn right to line up with the vision tetra and bring up the arm. Our lead mentor though it would be a good idea to check the progress of our programming team and stands to the left in the hallway. At the line the robot takes off down the hall, turns left and pins our lead mentor against the wall with the arm between his legs, right as the arm was going up programming disabled the robot and saved our lead mentors :eek: family jewels :eek: .
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most of the injuries on our team have been pretty minor, probly the most serious was when one kid, who wasnt too experiencd with tools, was taking out a drill bit from the drill press, and the bit fell off and slit his finger, he had to get stitches
I have gotten a bunch of minor injuries like cuts or metal in my fingers, but thats just part of the experience of working in the machine shop also last year one of our mentors was hit by our robots arm, and he hurt his shoulder probly one of the most serious injury didnt happen to a person but to the machine shop that we were workin in. in 2003 we were testing autonomous and the robot didnt turn and went right through the wall, the mentor (who was the owner of the machine shop) was really mad, because there was a huge hole in his wall the size of our robot, to this day u can see the outline of the bot, even though they reparied the wall |
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The only "injury" we had was the robot running over my foot just before ship. It was slightly blue for a day or so, but that HURT. Our driver was nearly decapitated when the robot took off at full speed during autonomous testing(a lesson to the programmers the hard way about speed), but thankfully he dove out of the way so it didn't hit him.
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