avoid hitting the ESTOP in competition!

[mwtidd]

My team at bae this weekend had an issue where our network cable had gotten ripped out of the classmate. This caused our robot to drive on its own for a couple of matches.

My tip has nothing to do with this but rather something we found out the hard way.

Avoid hitting the E STOP at all costs. If your robot is not a danger, but is wandering aimlessly, most likely it will come to a stop on one of the walls.

Let it do this because you will still get ranking points as long as you don't hit the button.

Our team would have been ranked 11th and been picking alliance partners had we not hit the button. Instead we weren't picked at all (for obvious reasons...)

Another note, we did not hit the estop until he had come to a complete stop and was trapped in a corner, so in reality we achieved nothing by hitting the E STOP button.


However if your robot is a danger, obviously hit the button... we don't want anyone getting hurt.