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Unread 12-03-2016, 22:50
yonip yonip is offline
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[FRC Blog] Rogue Robots

all i've found was this: http://livestream.com/LeeHartman/GreaterDCEvent starting in the video second from the top at 7:49:00 ish
as one of the drivers of 449, lemme tell ya that was terrible to watch, esp since i programmed much of the robot...
Now that I'm less stressed to death by that incident, I'd also like to see a video of this from close up. I hear some people managed to get some video of it.
The reason the bot stayed rogue (as in, not estopped when it hit the wall) was due to a fault in the FMS and/or a faulty estop button (from what i heard at the event), so the FTAs spent the next hour or two trying to figure out what went wrong before they decided we'd replay the match later.
Big shoutout to the FTAs and volunteers at the Greater DC District at Walt Whitman. They were very nice and very transparent as to what was going on.
For the record, our auto was fixed and lets us cross almost all defenses (and only reactivated after thorough testing). I really like our portcullis auto too. especially now that we don't break the field anymore.

Last edited by yonip : 12-03-2016 at 23:06.
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