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Re: Programming goofs!

The major goof i remember was back in 2009. We had a slider that would push out orbit balls from our hopper, and had limit switches to stop the motor at its outer limits. Right before one of the matches, i added an override button for the ramp-up PID we had implemented for our drive wheels, at the request of our driver. I found what i thought was the latest code on our laptop, made the simple switch, and loaded it in. For some reason, during our function check, our slider wouldnt work, but everything else would. It wasnt until mid-match that i looked back at the code and saw that the digital input had been called a second time, just sitting at the bottom of the code out of view. Nobody knows why it was there.. After a simple delete, everything worked fine. Still blame myself for losing that match.. Pretty much cost us that regional.
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