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Re: Programming goofs!

In 2006, Cyber Blue 234 had a robot where the autonomous went straight toward the upper goal and would shoot the puff balls into it. Well at one point in a single match, the robot decided it wanted to sit still for the first 3 seconds of the match and not move. In that time, a robot from the opposing alliance came careening by and would have drilled our robot at full speed had we moved like we planned it. However, the robot didnt get hit and instead, moved right after the rocket bot missed us and continued autonomous as planned. We, the people in the stands, thought it was one of the best pieces of programming we'd ever seen. We were later notified that the programmers were just as stunned as us and didn't program it to do that. Long story short, we never found what glitched on the robot's programming, and we were still able to hit goals in that match. It also worked properly after that. Very cool
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Member - Cyber Blue (234) 2004-2007
Mentor - Harrison Boiler Robotics (1747) 2008-2010
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