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MonroeM MonroeM is offline
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Re: What is the strangest issue with a robot you have ever seen?

This year I saw two strange issues. One from my team and another from a nearby team.

First, a team in the sterling competition in michigan missed a decimal point in their coding for autonomous. When they started the match their bot went nearly full speed into the wall under the red alliance drive stations. The bot broke five welds on that side of the field.

Second, we had a catapult type arm that fed into our wheel shooter. Originally we thought of putting a hand type device on the end of the lever but in the end it turned out to be a plastic salad bowl. The plastic salad bowl actually worked better than a stainless steel on we got but it would need replacement every couple matches. FRC actually wrote in official documentation the term "salad bowl" which is cool.
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