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Originally Posted by RoboMadi
uhhh....... In robotics?
Well, stupidest mistake a programmer can make : miss a semi colon ';'
And i bet all the programmers out there has done it
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Anyone that says they have not is lying!
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Originally Posted by Andrew Blair
Well, for prototyping and testing purposes, we had allowed our pwm cables from live speed controllers just hang unplugged while we tested. Well, I went to turn on the bot, and a massive cloud of smoke rolled out from our eelctronics. I had completely burned the ground insulation off when a cable shorted the power screws to a victor. Luckily, the brain was unharmed.
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Same thing happened to my mentor.
Stupidest mistake I made? When I was supposed to disconnect the battery from a running motor I automatically just let it fall and stepped back. In this case though, the two wires fell into the connector completing the circuit and the rest is history

. (Caused our welds to break!)