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Re: Programming goofs!

after we fried almost all of our electronics on thursday at the k.c. regional. we did not check the line sensors, come to find our they were bad, which caused autonomous to go to an "impossible situation" that stopped the wheels. we ran a few matches before realizing this... then when we found that to be the problem, we took them off to get the new ones re-wired. so my un-calibrated gyro code seemed like the quickest way that might yield some results in points... in autonomous the robot drove in an elegant arc with our arm in the high position, pushing both alliance partners to the side (who fortunately couldn't hang anyways, just drive forwards) with our arm hanging over them. the whole time the "drivetrain" driver was excusing our robot and code to the other teams. we still won the match thankfully. we got the sensors back on before our next match, and our code was 100% all the way through finals. the way hanging code was written literally threw the tube onto the rack. it was so nerve racking that it was not requested, but ordered to drive further to make it less stressful. i finally saw video of it after the change and it still was pretty intense.

our biggest goof for the programming team in general was hooking up the battery cables backwards when rewiring the robot after finding the cause of the ground to the frame. we fried all our jaguars, a side-car, a c-rio card, and maybe a power distribution.