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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday
As you can all tell, I'm getting very tired of everyone ripping on the teams. Maybe I should take the same attitude as others here are taking next time a team asks me for help in the pits. If they were too "boneheaded" to show up with a working robot then too bad for them. Wonder how FIRST would feel about that attitude.
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Just so it doesn't look like I'm only tossing stones at other people:
-It was boneheaded in 2004 AND 2006 when I and the other programmers mistakenly let the robot run in a match with code that couldn't drive in a controlled manner, leaving us ineffective for a match.
-It was boneheaded in 2006 when I didn't check the charge level of the backup battery before a match, leaving the RC dead.
-It was boneheaded in 2006 (again) when I uploaded an old version of the code, thinking it was the new version, leaving the robot undriveable.
-It was boneheaded in 2006 (was not a good year for me) when I failed to remove the programming cable and it got caught in our drive chains, ending a match.
-It was boneheaded this year when we failed to double-check our main battery wire, which then came loose and left us dead for the entire match.
Any mistake that can be fixed in less than 30 seconds (ok, the code ones may not be 30-second fixes anymore
) and only takes a visual inspection to fix, I would call boneheaded. I don't really mean it in a mean way, I just mean it in a forehead-slapping "oops" way.