Well, our team only has 8ft of ramp, and only on half of the ramp is, err, ramped. So, we set up our bit of carpet and I played around with the timing on our dead reckoning. So, we stack a bunch of boxes on top of the ramp and let the robot go using our auton dongle. The problem is, the people who are helping me, mostly to reset the field, forget to watch out for the robot going off the other side of the ramp. So, it gets to the top, has some forward momentum and just letting go of the auton dongle doesn't stop it in time so it falls off. So, about 100 pounds of robot falling from 2 feet smacking straight into the front plate usually isn't a good thing. The funny thing was nothing broke except for the rotating light that was in the back of the robot. I think we were laughing because we were all afraid we'd completely screwed our entire team.
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