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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
last year before we shipped the robot... (once the robot was done) we were driving it around... unfortunately the ramp we had at motorola didnt have the railings on the side... and somebody was driving it off the ramp... one of our team member (mike) jumped in to catch the robot.. he had a big scratch on his hand... but it wasnt really a bad injury...
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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
oooooo... it's painful simply reading throught this thread...
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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
Last year I smacked our president in the face autonomously(the goal was to drive along the line until it saw something in front of it close, then move the arm around and pray it knocked at 10pt ball off), but someone walked in front of the banner sensor and it clipped his neck pretty good.
THis year I dropped our 50 pound steel hoss of an arm on my head twice (once while uncrating, once while recrating), and had our elbow joint in the arm with our original massive gripper smack me in the head... And people wonder whats wrong with me *twitch* |
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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
While unpacking the robot i stood up and bumped my head on our very bright pink claw. I'm lucky- that's the closest thing to an injury I've had(except for a killer headache from sleep deprivation). Last year someone almost cut their finger off with the band saw. A few days later while driving down the long, very steep hill that is the street that leads to our school, the same guy hit a light post.
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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
oh man one year, I wasn't on the team yet, but one night in the shop it was either Aidan or Ben who got shocked by the battery...and I can remember last year my grandfather was using the belt sander and nicked his nail on it, and my friend Ian and I were in shock, because right after he started using it like a nail file to fix it, the belt sander is now fondly known as "Ed's Nail Salon". but other than that, only scratches from lifting the robot up.
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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
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sorry there Mr. Andersonbut... some one hit the joystix to try to stop motor buzzing but insted or hiting the joysticks he hit the boom down switch and BAM nailed him right in the head. i felt bad. Last edited by i_am_Doug : 07-04-2005 at 16:59. |
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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
We have a kid on the team that drives a yellow lancer and we were working with the camera out side and the robot chased his car. It was pretty funny.
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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
The only kind of bad one that I can think of was when I was sawing a piece of plywood with a handsaw. The saw slipped, and cut through my thumbnail down pretty far. It bled quite a lot, but it's all healed now. The other Kate on our team got sliced by a cut bolt from our wings about halfway up her forearm. It wasn't a deep cut, but it was in an unfortunate position.
I think our team got more than it's share of cuts from our robot this year because the cut-off screws from our wings were so sharp. I mutilated two pairs of tights working on the robot before I changed out of my uniform. My mother wasn't happy. I am probably forgetting something, but that's it for now. |
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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
during my freshman year, after helping wire GhettoBot, i decided to plug in a batter to see if any of my wiring actually worked the way it was supposed to. well, i didnt bother to check if the switch was on for some odd reason (which it turns out it was) so while i was sitting on the top of a table with our little wooden robot, i moved to plug in the battery and suddenly there was this sparkly flash! thankfully i didnt get hurt, nor did a friend of mine who just so happened to be walking past me at that time... but needless to say, i was banned from plugging in batteries for the rest of the build season.
at robot demos we generally let children drive the robot for a little (with guidance)... well.. generally bad things happen when we allow kids to extend our arm all the way (11 feet, mind you), because once its extended, they feel the need to move the arm, putting everyone in an 11 foot radius in danger, since when you move the arm just barely, it puts the center of gravity out of whack, and things come down, fast. thankfully no one has been hurt, but the first time i drove Roccobot 2k4 at a demo i was banned from being the arm operator because i had a bad habit of coming waaay to close to spectators. at a recent demo there was this specifically rambunxious little boy who wanted to try base driving, so i figured why not, as long as i had my hands on the controls as well it wouldnt be that big of a deal... NOT. the second i said "sure" he grabbed the controls before i could yell "watch out" to those standing by out pit crew chief who was explaining something about the robot by the robot at the time, and we ran into her ^^; shes okay, no real battle scars, but at nationals last year, she did scare us all in the stands when she held up a bloody rag. she hadnt gotten hurt by the robot, just had a freak-of-nature nosebleed, but we had a running joke that she got in a fight with one of the other teams. none of those are really injuries though.. but this one is. this past build season while i was doing driving practice with our current human player (originally we had planned to try out to become the pink team's first female drive team, she being base driver and i tower operator) we had our human-player wannabe's run around doing Field Reset. we only had about 2 or 3 PVC tetras at a time on average (although we started off with more, while i was learning how to drive, i managed to break most of them by being less than gentile hand having a bad habit of dropping them) so our human player(s) would run around collecting the tetras as soon as we stacked them and placing them on our ghetto automated tetra station. well, one day, while our extremely hyper and impatient HP-wannabe was grabbing for a tetra immidiately after Maia and i had stacked it on top of a goal, he got swiped across the chest by our hook, because unfortuantly Maia had turned in the direction directly towards him, not away from him. he got a huge scrape across his chest (through his shirt!) from it, and although we felt bad, it still was kind of his fault for coming for the tetra on the same side as the goal as the robot.. hence we made the rule: Go to the opposite side of a goal to retrieve a tetra! ...and you can obviously see why neither of us ended up as drivers this year. ![]() ...on a random note... there are a lot of wing-related injuries! be careful everyone! you are not immortal!Last edited by Winged Wonder : 07-04-2005 at 18:58. Reason: forgot something :) |
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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
This past build season, for some reason, I developed the reputation of being able to hurt my self. OK, I did manage "knick" my self several times, and then there was that incident where I nearly pinched my finger while I was trying to shift a temporary tensioner on some chain, but nothing too serious. Now I've got our safety captain either trying pay off the paramedics to follow me or at least tape a small first aid kit to myself.
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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
Last year during the FIRST season, someone was testing the drive train on the robot and managed to drive over my brother.
This year, during another competition my team participates in, one of our mentors was helping us load things in the trailor and while attempting to tie something down with a bungee cord, it snaped and the hook hit him in the face and barely missed his eye. We took him to the hospital right away...and now he is all better! |
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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
I now have a scar on my ankle from when the corner of our testbot (a kitbot) swiped me at roughly 8 feet per second. This just proves that going full speed with the joysticks coded incorrectly is a bad idea.
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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
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Our auton story, with the camera. The day we finally have camera-driving as the autonomous mode on our testbot, 3 programmers, all named Josh, are wearing green. The first instance, where it seemed to not be working, and then suddenly noticed me, had me dive out of the way, and someone quickly hitting the switch. It was almost caught on camera, so we decided to stage it again and record it. This time, the bot doesn't notice me...it notices the other (unaware) Josh. As we test later...the third Josh suddenly walks in...but we were...prepared. Our pneumatically folding arm was a bit of a problem, as well as our grabber. A mentor got hit on the head in the early days of testing it, and had a bit of bleeding...wasn't really a problem. Everyone wears hardhats while working on the bot since. One instance of the arm falling at high speed was saved by soft safety goggles. Boing! |
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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
I had an injury this year because of my own stupidity. Some guys were cutting some 8020 extruded aluminum for our arm with a hacksaw (we're too poor to buy a ban saw) and they were taking forever. Well, time was getting short as well as my temper so I asked them what was taking so long. It ended up being that they had to make two cuts to completly cut through the aluminum and one was about an 1/8" off. The aluminum was in the vice and they had wasted quite some time trying to get the hacksaw to cut through sideways. I got angry and just grabbed the aluminum and snapped it off downwards with my hands curled around it. Well, in my anger I forgot to turn the vice away from the table so I ended up smashing my finger between the aluminum and some hefty 2x10's. I lost all the skin on the inside of my first ring finger knuckle as well as gained some nice hairline fractions to go along with it.
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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
i have to say reading this most of the injuries are happening to the programmers, theres something funny about that...any who my story, i got my shoelace caught in last years robot drivetrain while repairing it, but i ripped it out before it did any damage.
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