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Re: surefire ways to break you robot
Leave a flashlight on the robot. This happened to us in the quarterfinals at Trenton. Our robot crossed two lines in hybrid and then stopped. When our drivers tried to take control, one wheel wasn't working. Turned out the flashlight was actually IN the drive belts, turned on, illuminating the robot. I had the drivers e-stop the robot, but you should've seen the look on the ref's face when he pulled it out.
*Make your robot look like a trackball. Wait for another robot to hurdle it.
*Hook a claw around one of the plates on the rack from last year. Pull as hard as you can (hint: the steel chain will NOT break)
*Attempt to drive down stairs.
*Pull out the programming cable while downloading. Assure your head programmer that you saw the program state light turn green (happened to us at Chesapeake)
*Have a critical part of your robot exposed (happened in semifinals at Chesapeake. Our forklift was toast).
*ENTER FIRST ROBOTICS!
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