[FRC Blog] Orlando Incident

[jvriezen]

I hope the paperwork burden is minimized or even eliminated. I think an decent solution would be a pad of change forms that all inspectors could keep in their back pocket. It would include a tear off portion that the team retains as proof of re-inspection and part that stays in the pad (and is filed at the inspection station). It would note the date/time of re-inspection, nature of changes, and new weight (if re-weighed). This would still allow for 'on the spot' re-inspections when a team doesn't have time to go to the inspection station before the next match or during elim fix-ups.

Maybe even simpler is for the team to whip out a video camera/phone/tablet and record a short video that includes the nature of the change and a statement from inspector that it has been inspected and a statement of date/time etc.

I actually had a team do exactly that when I re-inspected their bot after they added a frisbee blocker to defend against a tall FCS bot last year. It keeps the situation as now, but the team retains video evidence that an inspector has said "Team 9999 has officially passed re-inspection at 11:40AM on March 15th for the addition of a nuclear reactor to drive the Freon cooled hydraulically controlled flame throwing arm system." The video would include shots of the parts on the robot that have been added or changed. Only the team needs to retain the video to respond to any challenges about re-inspection.