[FRC Blog] Einstein Report Released

[Jon Stratis]

Throughout the season, we saw a lot of posts and statements about "connection issues" at event and champs. Many people blamed FIRST through the entire season.

However, as this report shows, there are a LOT of issues that can affect a robot's ability to perform on the field, and many of them are caused (unknowingly) by the teams themselves. In the future, we should all keep in mind that these robots are very complicated machines, and there is rarely a single root cause for "connection issues".

FIRST did a great job with this report, and the sheer number of issues they discovered with the individual robots really shows how detailed they were in their investigation.

As for the individual who caused interference on Einstein... It's all been said at this point. The individual has been punished, and there isn't really anything else we can do about it. Part of Gracious Professionalism is not pointing fingers. When we find bugs at work, we don't ask "who wrote that section of code?" We ask "Who is the best, most knowledgeable person to work on fixing this bug?" As a community, lets move past the actions of the individual and show our support for the job FIRST has done.