surefire ways to break you robot

[XXShadowXX]

These are 5 ways that your robot will break during a compition. These action can only be done by a member of the pit crew who has extensive knowlegde of every system, and how to fix everyone.


Put all the tools, parts, and electric tape away.

Walk to the snack bar and spend more then $5, you will be intercepted on your way back to pits by 2 or more team members looking for you. After fix is done, your food will be missing.

Fall asleep.

Connect to a wireless network, not to do research for robotics but to have fun.

Try to watch more then 4 matches in row.


Got anymore, this always broke the robot for me

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by XXShadowXX

These are 5 ways that your robot will break during a compition. These action can only be done by a member of the pit crew who has extensive knowlegde of every system, and how to fix everyone.


Put all the tools, parts, and electric tape away.

Walk to the snack bar and spend more then $5, you will be intercepted on your way back to pits by 2 or more team members looking for you. After fix is done, your food will be missing.

Fall asleep.

Connect to a wireless network, not to do research for robotics but to have fun.

Try to watch more then 4 matches in row.


Got anymore, this always broke the robot for me

Mention how great the robot is running

[David Brinza]

Just say this:

"Hey, the code's done! Let's test it!"

[My apologies to all you software wizards that are given almost all of Thursday afternoon to get hybrid-mode "done".]

[Taylor]

Presence of parents, school administrators, or prospective sponsors.
Videotape a match.
Look across the field to see 1024, 111, and 1114 on the other alliance. Your robot may not break, but your drivers will.

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Originally Posted by boiler

Look across the field to see 1024, 111, and 1114 on the other alliance. Your robot may not break, but your drivers will.

Haha.
What if the people that were facing them were
217, 469, 148?


Set ur autonomous mode to try to hurdle itself over the bar?

[Billfred]

Step 1: Retrieve our various PVC pipes strewn about the field on Thursday at Chesapeake.

Step 2: Instruct a student to take the drill and screw together the fittings and pipes.

Step 3: Queue up for our next practice round.

(With the relative youth of our team, the kids missed a spot or three each go-round until that night, where there were about five screws in every joint.)

[Tetraman]

With 5 seconds left, pull off something that takes 9 seconds to do.

[Stuart]

tell the drivers " hey lets try something different this round"

[A_Reed]

Clothesline the overpass at high speed.

Make metal shavings over the electronics and forgetting to clean them out.

[Matt C]

Sprinkle cheddar cheese liberally over your controller board, bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

[JesseK]

Best surefire ways to break our '08 bot:

Try to actually engineer pieces of the bot like motors to handle a pre-conceived load without burning out

Claim we actually have an idea of what we're doing

Claim that even though it's the first time we've ever done most of the things we're doing on the bot, they will all work together ok

[Chris27]

advance to the semi-finals

[GBilletdeaux930]

Originally Posted by boiler

Presence of parents, school administrators, or prospective sponsors.

Ha this happened to us. The head of the school board showed up and we explained how great we'd been doing, everything was going bettered then planned and yea.

So the first match he watches... the pwm for our left wheel is unplugged so first we sent us and one of our alliance members across the plane. Then we spent the rest of the match trying to defend by spinning in circles in the 4th quadrant

We won the match because of our amazing alliance partners 171 and 166 but it still was a bit embarassing

[XXShadowXX]

some more


have everything work for more then 5 matches


sit and watch the competion for more then 5 matchs, giving the chief engineer job to somebody else, this will result just as the robot is going onto the field, the new engineer will walk up to you, "We had a problem with the arm, so we took it off and replaced a broken slide, but after we mounted the new one we couldn't fit all the screws in." Then shows you a fist full of about 8 or 9 bolts.

[galewind]

forget to put a "Stop" command in your autonomous routine