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Re: What is the strangest issue with a robot you have ever seen?
This year at the NYC regional we came in without much to do. The robot was in good working order after our week 0 and we did not have any planned upgrades. So, we got inspected quickly and proceeded to participate in some practice matches. After 2 practice matches we went to the pits and tried to shoot a boulder for a kid visiting our pit and well.... nothing worked. The robot would not inititialize and we kept getting weird errors. Nothing looked wrong anywhere and we had not changed anything since our last practice match. Turns out our programmer accidentally wrote a line of code (Not a programmer so sorry if I am saying this oddly) saying if the controller joysticks were not 0 to set all motor values to 0. He claims he never wrote the line but no one else would have. And... we will truly never know. My guess is we slightly damaged one of the joysticks so they were not completely 0ed and it broke everything....
4 hours of troubleshooting later
every CSA at the event later
We fixed it.
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