[Ri3D] ‘Snow Problem presents Prometheus

[peirvine]

Originally Posted by Joey1939

I noticed blue tape over the extra ports on the roboRIO and PDP. Did you find this necessary for a certain reason?

We got a piece of Aluminum in it that shorted a PMW on the Athena (roboRIO) which caused the whole system not to run. Once we found that out we removed it and decided to tape over all the exposed pins to prevent that from happening. We taped over the PDP because metal shavings in there would be bad...

[ehochstein]

Originally Posted by peirvine

We got a piece of Aluminum in it that shorted a PMW on the roboRIO which caused the whole system not to run. Once we found that out we removed it and decided to tape over all the exposed pins to prevent that from happening. We taped over the PDP because metal shavings in there would be bad...

I have a feeling that this will be something commonly seen at competitions, it is fairly easy for a piece of metal to fall into the PWM ports and cause a short. I know I will be encouraging teams I meet with to cover the open ports on their roboRIO.