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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
More than one team accidentally enabled their robot by pressing the F1 key while in another application on the Driver Station, so using F1 to enable was changed to the three-key "[]\" combination.
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This has never happened to our team (to my knowledge). Moving it to the three button press seemed necessary, but I wasn't opposed when it was brought up in Beta. However, I witnessed a much more likely scenario at the shop. Because the old enable (F1) wasn't there, the drivers just moused over the enable button on the screen to enable and then used the enter key to disable. This meant the mouse was left over the enable key. During driver practice, the students had disabled the robot and were resetting the field, throwing pool noodles back to the other side of the drivers station when, you guessed it, a noodle landed on the mouse button, enabling the robot. Luckily it was just into teleop (not auto), so the robot didn't do anything.
Long story short, don't leave the mouse over the enable button or you could enable from across the room.
It seems to me an accidental mouse click is much more likely than an accidental F1.
Whether or not your team has the technical mentors, as long as your kids are still inspired by the adult technical mentors of other teams, and get the picture that we're trying to portray in this program, the best that you can do is the best you can do. Do it, and be proud of your results. - Beth Sweet [more] 
27-04-2015, 16:51
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