Originally Posted by richardp

The rain was just crazy! We (116) were at dinner and it just starts pouring rain. This caused us to start worrying since we had a trailer at the hotel outside with our robot inside. The problem was that is was not a closed kind it was a simple trailer. We had put on a tarp to cover the robot before leaving, however on the way to Indy the wind had caused the tarp to get all kinds of holes. So Friday morning we took the hair dryers out of the hotel and started blow-drying the daylights out of the entire robot. Tytus and Arefin helped us out by getting a shop vac and some WD40 for the parts that had started to rust. The robot wasn't too badly damaged however we think that the rain caused several problems that we are now dealing with.