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Unread 13-03-2015, 10:05
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Re: Safety Issue: Robots Moving in Pits

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
As a team who puts the robot on the floor in the pits a lot this year, here's our advice: have an itchy trigger finger ready on the space bar.

Putting a robot on the floor is a necessity when tuning/tweaking/fixing the mechanism that interacts with the game piece. It does not matter the year, if the mechanism must pick up a game piece off of the floor then the robot must be on the floor for a proper test.
I don't think the issue is with testing a mechanism, but with the risk of the robot taking off and driving out of the pit area.
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