Some of the stories on this post are cracking me up!
I thought of a really good one dealing with the autonomous mode for our team this year.
We had a basic program that we were testing out at our playing field. A first-year volunteer on our team, fondly known as Uncle Gary, was helping some students... We connected the tether to the robot to load the program onto it, but when it was done, instead of us having time to unplug it, there was a slight glitch and it started moving as soon as it had the program. The lap top was still connected and was resting on top of one of the totes. But the program didn't work accurately at the time, and the robot started spinning around in circles.
Hahaha- I can still see Uncle Gary grabbing the computer and chasing the robot around while everyone else scattered! Finally someone was able to turn the robot off and no one was hurt.
I don't remember any accidents happening where someone really got injured, we just have some pretty funny stories.
I have one more for you...
Last year, me and my friend were working on our robot's ball pick-up, and directly above us on a flight of stairs one of our engineers was standing talking to another adult. He wasn't paying attention and he accidentally dropped an open water bottle on our heads! It was actually really funny, because at first we didn't notice where it came from.. The other adults kept joking around with him about the students having to wear hard hats to work under him! Oh, good times!
