It could happen to you (but we hope not)

[IronicDeadBird]

Originally Posted by TikiTech

Hello Again,

After watching the video, way too many times, I believe the damage occurred at the 2:30 mark in the video. Team 1339 was defending the robot that was about to receive the inbound of the ball. Their pickup was all the way over on the opposite side of where they were pushing. Another red alliance robot came up and delivered a hit, probably trying to run counter defense. You can see 1339 arm was fine prior as they used it to score the one point goal a few moments prior. Then after the hit, which lifted part of the robot off the ground, you can see the arm drooping.
The robot that did hit 1339 was not extending anything at the time, but did hit their pickup arm, inside THEIR own perimeter, which you can see afterwards 1339 arm is hanging crooked. The damage might be inside the frame but was caused by too much stress on the pickup that was outside the frame perimeter breaking a weaker junction inside the robot.

Sad to see this, but at least you can see that it wasn't intentional nor were the opposing team inside team 1339 frame...

Lesson learned.. DO NOT LEAVE ANYTHING OUTSIDE YOUR PERIMETER! Especially if you are running defense.. Very tempting to make a new Lexan pickup for this very reason...

Good luck!

Aloha

In an attempt to keep the arm from ramming into the robot in front of them someone came up the backside and smashed into it. Looks like our brogrammers need to get a button that centers the arm in a vertical position.