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Re: why blame the programmers??
Perhaps my favorite quote from the season: "The programmer's taking responsibility for the problem. It must be mechanical then!"
It's simply a black box problem. Almost anyone on a team can understand how a mechanical system works. Electrical causes much more confusion than mechancial, but it is still understandable to many. Programming is the least understood, so everyone automatically jumps to it. Programmers (on our team at least) understand almost everything on the robot, and can therefore pinpoint exactly where the problem is. Since the programmers usually figure out the problem, guess who is yelled at every time?
Oh, and my favorite error of the season was when mechanical drilled through some wire on the robot and caused everything to fail.
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