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Unread 12-02-2009, 13:44
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Re: Solving static electricity problems by grounding the frame

Heh -- this year we gave up. EVERYTHING is a programming problem!

But you don't want us to fix your hardware problems -- all we have is a hammer.

Even though everyone on the team blames the programmers for everything, it almost always turns out to be the hardware. I think the score ended up Programming +3, Hardware -1/4 before the hardware group gave up. (It's an odd scoring system, but yes, hardware lost a whole point then gained 3/4 point later.)

But it isn't the rebooting the robot, it's putting the robot back in the starting position to try, try, and try again. And get all the orbitballs back in. Though I did manage one time to get the robot to come back on it's own autonomously, attracting it with a second target panel. That was a cool trick!