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Re: Pit design help
Someone mentioned batteries. We wrote on masking tape the word "fire" in five different languages and used each language to differentiate between each battery light and the ends of each cable connected to the battery. This way, you can look at the end of any cable and see which goes to which indicator light, avoiding the whole follow-the-wire-to-a-good-battery business.
Another thing that helped was a long piece of masking tape with "Charging... Charging... Charged!" on it that someone always sticks to the ground under the table by the battery charger/s, and now we just place the freshest batteries at the "Charged!" end and the least charged at the other end.
Also-we always designate one plastic bin to people's coats, backpacks, lunches, water, etc.
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"There's no finer engineering than pit engineering." -kaszeta
"Show a girl how to use a wrench, and she'll put those skills to use for a lifetime. Hand it to her and tell her she's probably better off shopping, and she'll clonk you over the head with it, do your pneumatics system, and CAD the robot." -Amanda Morrison
 '09
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