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Re: CURIE Discussion - 2007 Championship

1510 wildcats are very excited for Curie division this year!

I wish we had shown what we could do at San Diego a little more. Our BaneBot gearbox broke literally 5 minutes before they kicked us out of the pits on thursday night. The next day we quickly put in a new one (missing the opening ceremony and one match) but when we plugged the electronics board back in, the lower arm pot was put in backwards so it burned out and we spent 2 matches trying to find the problem. We changed the pot and were finally out for one of the matches, but our arm presets were oscillating like crazy because of the new pots. By the time we finally got everything figure out, it was Friday after all our matches... yay for a series of unfortunate events.

However, we have tested our autonomous (Saturday morning and two matches on Saturday) and we have it working at 100% (about 7 tries). Also, our arm is working perfectly again, and we found out we can do human loading (over the wall) easily as well. So we hope to show everyone what we can really do this time.

I can't wait to see this competition. So many good teams, its going to be amazing. See you all there and the best of luck to all of you at the competition. Hope all you robots stay alive and running the whole time
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