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Stripping a wire while inside the robot... when it came off I nailed my hand on the frame and my face with the strippers!

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Not being on a team... :(

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Nah.. then we come back as alumni.

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Worst decision: Pushing the robot down the hallway with the speed controllers on brake. "What's that smell..." Next time we try to drive the robot...sparks start flying...and we're all clueless as to why...until, of course, we spot the giant burn mark on the inside of one of the speed controllers. Whoops. :rolleyes:

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Our worst decision had to be the night before our rollout. It was saturday night, and the programmers had just gotten the robot. I had to mount the drop down guard to protect the shooter from other robots, and i figured it could wait, since i didn't want to disturb the programmers. the next day, at rollout, since the acceleration and deceleration code had been taken out, our robot got a little tipsy at the very end..... and it flipped on its front side, onto the shooter :ahh: . Luckily, kevin had mounted the lexan gaurd for the wheel of the shooter, which was made from lexan and to be replaced by the new aluminum wheel. When the robot fell, the guard protected the wheel, which wouldn't have mattered anyway, but the impact shattered our lazy susan :eek: (the giant ring of ball bearings we're using as a turret) It was the sunday before ship, so we some of our adults on a road trip to mcmaster (about an hour away from us) early the next morning. We mounted the guurd, and bought a few spare lazy susans. Worst descision had to be not putting that guard on... or taking the accel/decel code out. Luckily, we learned from our mistakes and fixed the stability problem before a competition. Never forget MORT face-plant '06.

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pressing my finger in an arbor press while broaching a keyway :rolleyes:

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Yeah, I do. But I might mentor somewhere during my college years, because FIRST Robotics is just one of the experiences that inspired me during my high school years. If I can't mentor, I'll just simply go to one of the regionals circa the time I'm on Spring Break.

EDIT: Worst decision during the Build Season was to put up that "Team Sweetie" picture on the front of our robot. So many people were calling either us "Team Sweetie" or the robot "Sweetie"/"Team Sweetie".

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Our teacher, mentor, coach decided to wire our shooter motor directly to the battery for some testing, a we thought we might have pinched the casing of the motor as we mounted it. the large CIM Fisher Price, after about 5 secounds of it spooling up, the wires melted, fused together, and put out a large cloud of blue smoke, needless to say the motor never worked again. lol :ahh:

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my friend left had his month old laptop open and someone dodged a ball infront of it which caused the ball to hit the laptop and destroy the screen.

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Hmm...Mike forgot team 11's other mistake:
Our dongle was rewired at some point (I don't know how or why) and when the programmers plugged it into the OI, something happened that shouldn't have, and now it's just a very expensive peice of metal and plastic.
Always check your wiring. Luckily, we have other OIs.

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Forgetting to put up chain guards until 11 PM day before ship date and knowing that the robot will be picked up at around noon the next day. :rolleyes:

-Team 1852

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hmm...im not too sure i think there's too many
Here's a few:

1) eating too much pizza
2) drinking too much pop
3) going to the scrimmage too early with nothing to do for 3 hours!!!

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I didn't mention the programmers plugging the camera in upside down in a rush right before our rollout :p ..... they had to manually aim the shooter.... so it wasn't as impressive. and now you know why we blame the programmers for everything...... cuz they plug stuff in wrong and break our OIs. Silly programmers :p (btw, i program on my spare time, but not for the team, so i am allowed to say stuff about programmers :D

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It happened four weeks ago but... Looking down at a piece of 80/20 while yanking it upward, upward into my face.

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When I was stripping a wire for affixing to a speed controller when the board was in our robot already. I really should have taken the board out, but it is wedged in so tight, that's really hard (I'm actually worried a bit about victor airflow, not a lot, but a bit). Anyway, I was really pulling hard to get the insulation off, so when it came free suddenly, my arm flew into one of our Victors. Not good... but it still worked fine!