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Originally Posted by Francis-134
Quite serendipitous that you mentioned this. Just last night, team 190 was driving around with the new control system and we managed to fry the DS as well. When we went to hit the disable switch, there was an electrostatic discharge that immediately killed the DS and at this point, it looks like it also took out both the Ethernet ports.
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Actually, it's *because* this happened to you that I mentioned this. One of your mentors told one of our mentors this morning, and our mentor called me.
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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman
The Driver Station isn't "very exciting" when its sole functional task is serving as a large, blue, expensive paperweight.
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Getting a little zap and suddenly losing functionality of the Driver Station could be "exciting", although definitely *not* in a good way.
But yes, I do agree that they should have been more careful about designing their components. It seems that FIRST did not spend nearly enough time designing and testing their new system to ensure they were delivering high-quality components to teams. In my opinion, Alpha testing should have been two summers ago, not one.