Re: surefire ways to break you robot
 

allow your mentor to have a doctor pepper in the pit... ours did and he spilled it on the control board....it wouldn't have been too bad had he not immediately assumed that we had wired the robot incorrectly and spent 2 hours yelling at us to fix it and burning out our lift motor in the process

Re: surefire ways to break you robot
 

We dont have much in the way of mentors to start with, and they certainly dont tell us what to do. I think it is better that way.

Re: surefire ways to break you robot
 

Keep it on display for a few years and then tell a freshman to reference an old design. They end up taking it apart and not knowing how it goes back together.

Re: surefire ways to break you robot
 

Build a robot.

Try to replace your transmission 30 seconds before a semifinals match.

Hold said transmission on with zipties.

Allow your robot to watch 330 and 1717 be on an alliance together.

Forget to add the line of code that makes the lead screw stop spinning when it gets to the limit switch.

Re: surefire ways to break you robot
 

Register for the Davis Regional :D Defense is rough there :D

Brag about how your robot hasn't broke yet this season. Ours hasn't... oops :mad: do'h!

Re: surefire ways to break you robot
 

Design the entire robot to be held together using 6/32 screws*. :rolleyes:

* 6/32 is usually the most commonly broken tap in machine shops (followed by 10/24), due to the ratio between the diameter and the number of threads per inch. I despise 6/32 with a passion and will avoid it at all costs, whether it means shrinking down to a 4/40 or increasing to an 8/32.

Re: surefire ways to break you robot
 

We did both. This is totally true!
a) We went to Davis.
b) After the first day, we bragged about how our arm hadn't broken or been damaged. The next day, we rammed a wall and our arm got badly damaged (luckily we had all of lunch to fix it).

Re: surefire ways to break you robot
 

Rely on COTS parts that are meant for industrial purposes.

In buckeye the steel cables(inner core) in our Brocoflex belts mysteriously fell apart after one match and the only thing holding them together was a thick layer of red linatex rubber.

Re: surefire ways to break you robot
 

Program the robot to intialize with all the pwm at 254 and all the realys on for hybrid mode.
Then put the robot in hybrid w/o unplugging the prgraming cable, or tether cable :D

Re: surefire ways to break you robot
 

-have a novice programmer program hybrid, he believes that 0 is neutral
-let some one with no programming experience program robot
-have a programer try to fix the robot
-have driver fix the robot
-fix robot on the field
-field the robot after using any of these words in staging or in the stands before you go on.
--should, work
--watch, this
--got it all working
--will, work
--your sponsoring us?
--you want to sponsor us?
--i double checked everything
--those pwm's arn't going any were


lastly attach anything with loktite it will have to be removed right after the loktite sets

Re: surefire ways to break you robot
 

try using a little baby motor to lift a lift with so much friction that your operating at roughly 10% efficiency.

Re: surefire ways to break you robot
 

Programmers....what shall we do with u?

Re: surefire ways to break you robot
 

Easy: Let us do our work so you guys can win.

Re: surefire ways to break you robot
 

Just don't do our work (building/breaking) for us, OK?

Re: surefire ways to break you robot
 

We try our best not to...