[drakesword]

I believe it was 2007. I had finished programming early and was enjoying a bit of cleaning up the code. Had a mentor come in and tell me that the drive code was broken. Symptoms. Both joysticks forward nothing and one joystick forward the robot would spin one way. I thought to my self well that surly is wierd but I need to see it on the debugger. So I waltzed in there and had them run the robot. Joysticks were read right. The correct output was sent to the victors. Then I looked closer to see that one of the other mentors had cross wired the drive motors to two different victors. (Red of Motor A to positive of Victor A, Black of motor A to negative of Victor B). Before I could point this out (I was actually pointing at the wiring), the mentor who did the wiring said that the programmers need to check everything because the programming was always messed up. After I pointed the wiring out the robot ran perfectly and that mentor never came back ...