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we almost had a serious injury..

somehow.. our programming was screwed up and "joy_1_trigger" would run autonomous mode. (we had a special button elsewhere to run auto code for testing purposes).

Well, we are sitting at glr, getting code set, testing wings.. people are walking by.. we drop one wing.. then attempt to do the other one.. well the downed wing snaps up, and the robot takes off. I was holding onto it to rest my hand .. then I was holding on for dear life. I was holding back our quite powerful bot (we shoved 25 around like nobody's business at nationals [practice rounds]). someone else, I think one of the engineers, jumps up to help out. While all this was going on, someone was walking by and nearly got sandwhiched between the bot and the cement wall. Whoever was helping me, reached in and hit the breaker button (turn off bot). After we realised what just happened, [auto code ran], we realised how lucky we were. The next part of the code was to back up. Which would have done very serious damage to me, my helper, the computer, table.. and a few other things/people.

Later on, a similar problem occured but the tether cable popped out. The bot was about 4" from a person when she stopped.


Last year, with 247, we had the robot doing a "safety glasses check" on one of the engineers. Could have stabbed out his eye.

Just about every day I worked on the bot I got some kind of cut.

Nearly had my throught cut (I did, but not too deep). Picture: here. Was worse than it seems. That's after i cleaned up the blood.
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