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Originally Posted by Sean Raia
I'm a bit worried that many people are writing this off as a "oh its cause they didn't test Einstein" issue. Really? Did you hear about 1717's issues?
The problem here is deeper. These issues persist on many FRC fields and this needs to change.
Ultimately the firmware and hardware we are given by FIRST needs to be built tougher and respond more reliably.
Everyone contributes far too much money and time to be met with faulty reliability on FIRSTs end.
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You are correct. The issues on Einstein were just more visible. Issues have been ongoing all season at multiple venues.
I'm not entirely sure that all the problems are firmware and hardware provided by FIRST. In some cases teams did have some influence over the issues. Not that teams didn't expend absolutely every effort to work out their issues when they had the tools to find them.
However, I am entirely sure that FIRST needs to work on the troubleshooting process. Not merely for Einstein but competition wide. FIRST needs tools to solve these problems or no matter the brilliance of everyone involved the deadlines will be a disaster.