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Originally Posted by majorFIRSTnerd
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1) Why do they have female-female tether cables?! This only results in the clutter of cables while testing the robot.
2) Why have to tether in order to assign team numbers!?
3a) Why did they not have IR beacons and receivers pre-built?! I can see why they did it but they should have also shipped a built one.
3b) If you are going to give instructions on how to build circuits to hundreds of teams, MAKE sure they are right.
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1) This is so people dont mess up and fry their oi/rc by connecting the wrong ports together, thus they made 2 ports need db9 female connectors.
2) SO around 1000 teams do not accidentally incorrectly input their team nuimbers on their bot and another team controlling it while at a comp, and so it cant acidentally be changed on te field.
3a)there are around 1000 teams, not all are going to use the IR Sensors so why should they have to build it if we wont use it. This item is like the current sensor and has to be done by hand to cut costs.
3b) FIRST is made up of under 100 people at FIRST Place, and depends heavily on volunteers (like many people here), and we are human. Everyone makes mistakes. Just like you made a mistake of using a false user name.