Rookie Mistake of the day

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by mklinker

I was so proud of our team today. After arriving late and being further delayed by leaving our paperwork at home we were still one of the first six teams to pass inspection at the Boilermaker Regional. After inspection we tested shooting on the practice field for about an hour with great success and then cued up for a match on the real field only to have extreme connection issues. After a FULL day of struggles and trouble shooting we discovered that the drive team had not CHANGED THE BATTERY ALL DAY......A quick battery change and we fine! Lesson learned.

One of THE most important things you can do is to have a list of all the things you need to do before a match written on the robot (this way your drive team cannot misplace it ). Include things like removing the old battery, putting a new battery in, zip-tying the Anderson connectors together (robots hit hard!), resetting any mechanisms to stay within the sizing box, selecting the correct autonomous routine, etc.