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We did. when we finished working the turned on the power and thats when the rookie hit the controls. However we should have disconnected the power of the controls

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Not touching controls, or anything for that matter, that you are unfamiliar with should be common sense. It should not have to be taught especially for the field of robotics. Unfortunatly, most freshmen, and even a scary number of older team members dont seem to realize this. It appears that common sense is not to common anymore. :(

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i wish, last year we had a pneu poker to knock off the 10pt ball, it was hooked up to a few limit switches, our programmer was going to check something when he thought the power was off, walked into the limit switch, 12" throw, 50psi shot to the jewels, he wasnt in for the rest week. yeah, that tought our idiot vetrans to pay attention

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i am a freshman myself but personally, i think that a few of our freshman are really talented. we have this one kid who created an animation by himself. sadly we didn't end up using it but, it was still pretty awesome. as for me, im not that talented but, since next year, we
re losing our best veterans, the this year freshman and sophomores will basically be running the team. its not really about not letting only veterans work/ yell at the newbies, i think its more or so, who has the talent to work that should.

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Was this thread revived for a reason?
Anyways I think thast the easiest way to do it is get your hands dirty (ie use the program) personally while the tutorials that are included are good you really need two monitors to use them unless you print them out. And becuase my dual monitor card is yet to arrive I bought this handy dandy book The 3ds max Bible I've taught most of it to myself using the basic tutorials in the book then venturing farther on my own.