What was your teams worst expierence during competition?

[mechanical_robot]

Originally Posted by Jared

When we fell of the tower from the very top, in a practice match in st. louis.

We bent a 1/2" lead screw for our deployment mechanism at a 90 degree angle and had snapped three welds on our upper frame. After we got the robot to the pit, we removed the shooter, made a new hopper/loader out of lexan, removed the frame from the drivebase (the robot went from 60" tall to about 4" tall), swapped a shattered wheel, modified our "spare" frame that we brought with us, just in case, and rewired the shooter. Then, we put the new frame on, reattached the shooter, added the makeshift hopper, and when we went to turn the robot on, we discovered that our 24v power supply on the pdb had broken during the fall when our battery (which was also ruined) smashed into the power distribution board. So, we unhooked everything, added a new power board, and wired up most of the motors. We got to the field, the radio power fell out during the beginning of the match, we didn't move the whole time, and when we got back, we had to swap power boards again. All because of a fall on a practice match. Then, the next day, we ended up seeded 13th in Archimedes, but we weren't picked for eliminations. That was pretty disappointing.

Fortunately, we never had to use our frame straightener!

O good how horrible. Nice slth by the way