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Re: [FRC Blog] Rogue Robots
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Originally Posted by EricH
And the panels are secured with zip ties.
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Zip ties break when shock loaded. While I was reffing at St. Joe this weekend, a teleoperated robot slammed the lexan just in front of my tablet, sending zip ties flying and the panel crashing. I kept counting the crossings while field reset volunteers quickly re-installed the panel -- only took a few seconds, and the robots stayed clear. If the game action had been different, our FTA might have called a field fault. I'm glad that was not necessary.
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Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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