UH OH!!!
 

Umm... Is it good when you're CMUcam starts smoking and smelling like burning??

I think no...

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That is the worst possible thing that you can do to it. There is a great possibility that it is completely fried. It happened to us on Monday, it was only sparking for 5 seconds, but it was still gone. (Pic of fried camera) The only thing you can do now is buy a new one for $199.95 on the ifirobotics site and prevent the problem from ever happening again.

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Five seconds is a long time to have something that sensitive sparking. It was probably fried almost instantly. But yeah generally any time that something not intended to smoke or spark starts smoking or sparking it is bad.

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you have not felt bad until you saw three victors go up in smoke. all at once. and it is your fault.
wow was that a bad day or what....... :(

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Try breaking a drill motor. *in actuallity, it is very simple* But, then try explaining that to the lead mechanical mentor, before the plans that show complete assembly and dissasembly of the motor is released by an experienced team.

Thank goodness they knew (almost) exactly how to put it back together (sort of) that day.

Oops.. I bwoke it. (again)

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Our camera died but it died silently.


You should've video taped the disaster and kept it to bring laughs and tears to every team member for many years to come.

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*sigh* don't know what to say...

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i cant decdie whether to fell bad for you or envy you. Im ean losing your cmu cam is bad, but then you wont have to work with it :(. I am learning to dislike the annoying details of it

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There's nothing like facing your robot away from the computer by yourself, leaving autonomus mode on, screwing in the program cable to both sides, and watching your Program Port get torn out of the FRC as your robot races away. :ahh:

I was lucky that half of the pins were still attached, and that we had a good soldiering expert on our team who could manage to get the port working again.

I could not have imagined my instructors look if he had walked in before I hid the FRC out of sight to hide the

The moral: Do not put your robot on the ground while downloading code and while leaving autonomous mode on (using a switch on the OI).
If you want to do this, at least do not screw your Serial cable in to both sides of the connection.

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Our programmers (including me) thought that it was sort of good... because we didn't need to figure it out!

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Yes, there is. When the robot's front is facing your legs.