[Chexposito]

My FIRST time being in charge of electronics and programming, we went into inspection. Our robot had a "ground" that was within the tolerance, but I didn't nor did anyone else know that it was really ok. So we unhooked everything trying to find it, several times... CIMS ground after use, so after getting new CIMS the electronics mentor and I were rushing to put the robot back together (because we had a team breathing down our necks, some helpful some shoving video camera's in our faces) and we accidentally crossed the battery connection to the main power distribution board. We did not catch it until we went to fire up the robot (he was fixing the field at this point)... After a second of the circuit breakers sounding like crickets we shut the robot off. We ruined $1000 worth of jaguars (some of which he and another student were able to fix over the offseason). We got so much help from other teams loaning us parts, our school principal personally delivering the overnighted jaguars the next, and so many others we went on to pass inspection, we returned all team loaned jaguars and had only one pit admin borrowed on the robot. Little did we know our optical sensors were also fried, so we had "autonomous issues". After figuring that out our autonomous was perfect. We went on to win the regional. I won't forget having to go rip the pit admin jaguar off the robot while it was sitting off to the side of the field in the middle of the awards ceremony