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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
i was cut zip ties off our prototype and i cut my firnger with a razor blad. then with our prototype cannon i got shot in the nuts
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Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
Nothing worth mentioning other than a guy who drilled into his finger to the bone....then there's always fiberglass that burrows into the skin
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No "Major" injures to anyone
Fair share of booboos As for me, I've stubbed/bruised/smashed all fingers and toes, cut no less than five fingers, gotten 1 minor cold(heat went out in shop), heat my head, had my nose clipped multiple times, shins hit with wings in 2003, fiberglass, metal shavings and then the Norwalk outbreak of VCU in 2004. Last edited by pyroslev : 27-01-2006 at 21:31. |
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Hmmm... where to start? Well, two years ago one student was cutting a 2x4 and somehow he got sawdust past his goggles. This one isn't robot related to a robot, but one girl ate shrimp on our trip to the chesapeak regional and she broke out in hives and had to go to the hospital, apparently she didn't know she was allergic. Last year one kid repeatedly, like 20 times in 5 minutes, picked up angle iron just after cutting it on a chop saw. He didn't get hurt but it was kind of funny because he would forget every two seconds that metal gets hot when you cut it. Also, one girl cut into her finger with a drill. Finally, I think someone got hit with part of the robot last year. Wow, that's alot for just being in FIRST for 2 years.
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My FIRST lesson of FIRST: Don't try to clean the flutes of an endmill, while holding onto the flutes. 2004 was a bloody year.
Endmills are sharp. ![]() Last edited by Andrew Blair : 27-01-2006 at 21:49. |
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The lesson I learned was to never put a popped chain back on with the robot and operater interface on. It will leave you with a nice chain shaped scar on your hand.
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So far in 1293's history, one idiot has managed to claim both the first and second place slots on the list of our worst injuries: me.
Luckily, it wasn't so bad. The year was 2004. The night before ship, and two students decided to test out Bob. We didn't have a dongle back then (when I say that we were rookies, I really mean it), so the robot began its long drive to the ball tee in a room full of then-new computers on very rickety tables. I set down my work and run to the robot to try to trip the main breaker, since a tripped main breaker means the robot stops. Only then it started to make its turn, meaning Bob's arm was moving to where my leg was. I tip and fall, hurting my wrist a bit and being thoroughly embarrassed. The other incident wasn't as bad. It was Palmetto 2005, and we're in the practice area with Ockham. Our driver didn't set the dongle to disable, but tipped back the control board to pick it up. This throws Ockham into a nice little reverse--right where I was standing. Didn't do any damage to speak of, since the frame rode up onto my shoes and I held it off long enough for our driver to get it stopped. Moral of the stories? *If you mentor a rookie team, make sure they have a dongle. (It really costs all of $20 to do, less if you don't want fancy switches.) *Make sure your team wears closed-toe shoes and safety glasses. If it takes you wearing a pink tutu and being the Safety Glasses Fairy, so be it. *Know what the robot's going to do. *Disable the robot when you're doing anything with the controls but using them. |
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I never imagined that you might need to wear a cup for robotics. Of course, it turns out that you do.
The interesting thing is, we weren't even using the robot. Just "practicing" by throwing the foam balls at each other. |
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my first year on the team, We were at Chatsworth(a practice comp.) and i was holding the robot on its side. We were testing the air compressor and the ball herders on that system. Then the ball herders kind of attached me.lol
No lasting damage, just some bruises.lol |
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Am I the only one who thinks it really isn't the brightest idea to post how you injured yourselves at robotics, for all the world to see?
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The only one I can think of currently is the time person, now a team member at competition put a zip tie around his hand. Guess how he got it off. If you guessed tried to cut it off using his palm as the surface with his knife and had to be rushed to the ER on competition, you were correct.
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Our last match in Atlanta our robot was having a shoving match with a robot on the other team. The other team tipped over... and fell on me... remember those robots were 15+ ft hight... all i had was a scratch but i was kind of surprised to see that people didn't seem to care, i had to hurry back to my square and the match moved on.
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Last year our robot broke my heart.
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