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Re: Week 2: Any new lessons learned?

From a volunteer point of view:

-If your minibot doesn't come down at the end of the match, you need to get to the pole right away as soon as you're given the okay to get your robots. While most minibots can be easily taken down by setting the hook on top of it and pulling down, there were a few teams who told us to pull on the wheels instead, or some other part. Until you tell us how to take your minibot down - at least the first time it happens - we can't do anything. We don't want to break your minibot, but we also can't spend forever standing next to the tower.

-Tubes can be popped by pushing them really hard into the tower, or a wall, or another robot. Avoid crushing them.

-It only takes a tiny tiny tiny hole to pop a tube. You would be very surprised. I'm going to echo every inspector and volunteer out there when I say PLEASE do not have ANY sharp edges on your robot.

-Regarding tube inflation: it seemed that the tubes deflated slightly with use. They may have been placed on the field initially as brand new and fully inflated (using the guide), but after a few matches, they will be slightly smaller. Keep in mind that the crew simply doesn't have enough time between matches to re-pump all 42 tubes on the field, and that you may get ones that are up to an inch smaller.

-There were a lot of minibots that fell off of robots during teleop. Make sure they're secure until deployment!


EDIT: FIRST (or maybe FiM, but I assume it was from the folks in Manchester) sent us a nice package of parts and instructions to fix the tower triggering problem. It works very nicely. There weren't any false triggers at Waterford, to my knowledge.
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