Straight from the boss:
"Here's the full explanation, we've 'aquired' ourselves a flux capacitor (actually, we have two, but we don't tell our mentors that, they would have deemed it 'unsafe') and we had the brilliant idea to attempt to anodize our bot straight on the bench. So we rigged up our charging circuit, we ripped it off the TTC, a couple of hundred volts here, a couple hundred there and we figured, Hey we're good to go.
Well the construction leaders yells, 'Just GIVER!', so the electrical team decided it was time to hit the switch.
Lets just say it didn't work the way we wanted.
Yeah......"