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Re: Intermittent connection on field only

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Originally Posted by Gdeaver View Post
The CMP proved that there is a problem. Robots go dead during a match. The big problem as I see it is that there are many points of failure. Power and the power connector are just one. Isn't FIRST about the engineering mind set? Let's Give the students a real world example of how to kill a technical problem.
I would like to suggest the people working on this problem need allot more info than they have now. First they need a list of robots and matches were there was a failure. They need specific info about the robots on the field. Everything from radio mounting, language, video stream details, DS configuration, DS laptop details. Failure description (did the robot come back to life) and many more robot specific configuration details. Any solutions they tried. This could be sent out to teams as a questionnaire and the responses tabulated. An analysis may yield points to explore. The dropped coms issue has been around for some time. It needs to be attacked and killed.
I tried to start a community effort towards this goal already. I was told to slow down.

It does not appear that FIRST values the concept of a community effort. They want a few loud voices to shout over the rest.

All the excuses about my contributions to this topic distracting are also straw man arguments because I asked to be given another place to discuss the matter. They refused.

They don't want to prevent distraction. They want my message to troubleshoot from the foundation up, and myself as the messenger silenced publicly.