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Unread 23-04-2008, 17:31
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Re: Silly Programming screw ups (funny)

Well, let's see. During the 2007 season we spent several days trying to figure out why our camera wouldn't track the green light before finally realizing it was mounted upside down.

This year, we had an experience on the field that almost got us a penalty. Due to a short on the RC pins, we lost the 5V bus during one match, which runs the gear tooth sensors. During hybrid mode, the robot went forward full speed and slammed into the opposing alliance's wall.

We got a warning from the refs and determined that we could not fix the problem in time for the next match, so we flipped our disable autonomous switch, slightly disappointed.

The next hybrid mode, we were reminded that the disable autonomous switch also runs on the 5V bus. Fortunately we didn't get a penalty but the refs said we would get a yellow card if we did it again.