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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?

This thread is HUGE!

Back my Senior year (2003) for Stack Attack, on one of our MANY late nights in the Ag shop programming auto I swore the robot had it in for John while he was keeping the Programming cord from bring run over. I made one little change in the code that made the robot want to run him down... but the disable button saved him :-D.

To further that, ALL teams should have a disable button created and post someone at that button at all times during testing. It ought to be a MUST in your testing phase. Don't just use a switch, get one of those two position mushroom head stop buttons that you push in and pull out... and have them near it like they are getting ready to hear the million Jeopardy question. It could save a trip to the hospital.

Also, every team member that is going to use dangerous equipment should be properly trained by a mentor, weather or not they have used the machine prior to the current build season. People forget, or get careless... a refresher every now and then can't hurt. Train them, show them, Watch them. Be safe, don't rush, and get it done with all fingers and toes in tact.
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