Air Game 2016 - Do you have it?

[Zac Schofield]

A week ago when we were testing our backup robot, (So that we wouldn't break our main one in testing) our Driver drove over the rock wall, and the robot flipped forward and landed upside down... Now, as some of you may know, that's where a lot of the important electrical things are... So our driver cracked our RoboRio, and it's completely destroyed.

We're never going to let him live that down

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Zac Schofield

A week ago when we were testing our backup robot, (So that we wouldn't break our main one in testing) our Driver drove over the rock wall, and the robot flipped forward and landed upside down... Now, as some of you may know, that's where a lot of the important electrical things are... So our driver cracked our RoboRio, and it's completely destroyed.

We're never going to let him live that down

Jeez. Let the poor kid live it down he feels terrible. As a driver myself, I take complete responsibility for breaking things and when I do I feel really bad. I would probably hand the team $400 if I broke a rio.

It sounds like the mechanical teams fault for putting no protection on the top of the robot.

[Brian C]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

It sounds like the mechanical teams fault for putting no protection on the top of the robot.

Spoken like a true robot driver!

Remember. "A robot can always be fixed but a match can never be replayed."

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Brian C

but a match can never be replayed."

Unless there are FMS issues.

[Nuwanda]

We let our programmers drive (big mistake), and they drove the robot backwards over the moat. We have a mechanism that lifts up, which makes us top heavy when traversing defenses. They caught air and flipped the robot over, breaking the welds on our bumper mounts and bending the shooter. However, because they're programmers they just redid the interpolation tables for our motors as opposed to actually fixing the bent shooter.

[Brian C]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Unless there are FMS issues.

True. But that should never be considered a valid strategic option.

[gegozi]

Originally Posted by Zac Schofield

A week ago when we were testing our backup robot, (So that we wouldn't break our main one in testing) our Driver drove over the rock wall, and the robot flipped forward and landed upside down... Now, as some of you may know, that's where a lot of the important electrical things are... So our driver cracked our RoboRio, and it's completely destroyed.

We're never going to let him live that down

I hope you have a new rio, otherwise good luck, especially if you are competing early.

I wish you good luck either way, but you will especially need it if your roborio does not work...