Re: pic: Dez hits the big red button!!
 

Dude! Those things work?

I recall on Thursday on Archimedes that we had to stop matches for a few while NASA re-did the network, and we were trying to figure out if it was possible to run matches with that little panel. But nobody, FIRST, IFI, or volunteer, could figure out how to run the darn thing. So we waited for the network to work.

Re: pic: Dez hits the big red button!!
 

;) Just for the record, the only hand-waving going on was the "cut" signal... and man did Dez go for that button like a man on a mission!

What happened was... one of the robots knocked the ball off in autonomous, but the balls did not drop (i think their paddle looked like a ball to the sensor)... One of the refs went to drop the balls manually, but didn't until the 40 second mark... So... I declared it a field failure... and you know the rest of the story.

Dez -- next time I'm hitting the button myself! ;)

Re: pic: Dez hits the big red button!!
 

I was right there when it happened. In auto mode the robot came over and pushed aganist the ball but it moved it so the ball was balancing on the edge on the ball holder while the plywood at the end of the robots arm was in teh way of the sensor activating. The robot did not move again untill the drivers took over, they backed up and pulled the ball off the tee. The ref on that side of the field though that it had been hit in auto mode so he yelled over to a ref on the other side of the field to run and pull the release lever after the fact, which is why Adian stopped the match before it was over.

-Aaron

Re: pic: Dez hits the big red button!!
 

That exact thing happend in one of our matches.