Thread: What are some of your rookie/silly mistakes?
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Re: What are some of your rookie/silly mistakes?
In 2011 we made our claw out of plywood. The guys that built it insisted that it would be strong enough to hold up in gameplay. The FIRST match of our FIRST regional, the FIRST time that we attempted to pick up a tube another robot hit the other end of the tube that we were trying to pick up. The claw snapped. We patched it up with some aluminum bracing for the rest of the regional, made several "I'm not dead yet!" jokes, since it was painted black, and competed with it for the rest of the regional and lost in the semi's.

We machined an aluminum one before Boston, our next regional and then had a slight erm... situation... there with our alliance partners.
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