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Re: [FRC Blog] Einstein Report Released

While we're sharing dead robot videos, how about

-67 in MSC SF1-2 http://youtu.be/ZbTHqBdvgJc - Clearly dead for the remainder of the match, blinking RSL.

-67 in MSC F-2 - This to me shows symptoms that could also be described as a loose ethernet cable. Team 67 dies in the key, and recovers when they are hit by team 469 (~15secs dead based on video). They then die later in the match, near the opponents bridge, and do not recover. I will share it anyway. http://youtu.be/CDLzSMPyYsc
-We died as well in the SF's under similar circumstances. I will not share the video.

I (as a member of the drive team) was by the field during all of those matches. In the all cases, the FTA's blamed the issue on the radio, and team 67 replaced their radio with a spare after SF1-2. I talked with team 67 (and team 469, their partners) personally after/during this, and they very thoroughly looked over their machine and found nothing (to my knowledge).



As to all of my earlier rants on the control system, I have two points that I was trying to make:
-The system is too complicated or difficult to setup if so many of the highest level teams cannot get it right.
-The system, while vulnerable to an unknown bug, was also vulnerable to a known, relatively simple bug (deauth) and there was nothing in place to detect or log this properly.
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