[davidthefat]

For the off season, I was making a 3d image generator from an IR range finder. I chose to use the cRio as the board to get the data from the ir range finder. That set up required 2 servos, so I tried to get the servos to work for a week. The code was correct, I was sure of it. Now it turns out that I had forgotten to put "jumpers" onto the board. Now that took a week for me to humble my self to ask some one. THAT was embarrassing.

Another blunder with that same project. Some reason unknown to me, code blocks was reading the data from the C drive. I was unaware of that until summer. I was supposed to read from the folder the executable was in, or the root of the project folder. So I could not get the data points from the cRio so it could not draw 3d imaged on the screen, but I had the drawing part down. So when it was time to present (I went after a fantastic game made by our team captain) I had nothing to present, but I learned something valuable from going up there: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas A. Edison.
I had seen that quote before, but I truly experienced it in that class.