What's Your Most Unusual Field Debris?

[Jessi Kaestle]

Originally Posted by MaGiC_PiKaChU

How did this even get trough inspection?

Easy, it wasn't there during inspection. During maintenance a team member left the tool in the robot and forgot about it.

People would be surprised as to the number of tools that are found on the field at the end of a match, I would say it is on average 3-6 per competition, most of which go unclaimed. Normally they are screwdrivers, allen keys, and wrenches not crimpers, but the chain break was my favorite (that one was claimed by a very embarrassed student though)

[lorykzarr]

At GTRC I found an 8" long punch in the field. At first I thought it was some tape that had rolled into a cone.

[rlance]

Originally Posted by Jessi Kaestle

Easy, it wasn't there during inspection. During maintenance a team member left the tool in the robot and forgot about it.

People would be surprised as to the number of tools that are found on the field at the end of a match, I would say it is on average 3-6 per competition, most of which go unclaimed. Normally they are screwdrivers, allen keys, and wrenches not crimpers, but the chain break was my favorite (that one was claimed by a very embarrassed student though)

I'm pretty sure they were referring to the other robot in the match (keep watching the video) that used duct tape a recycle bin and more duct tape and probably bailing wire.

[jamesmcip]

At UMass Dartmouth we left tons of broken parts (and maybe broken dreams?) on the field, including shattered carbon fiber, pvc, and even a ski or two.

One thing that almost happened was we left the huge classmate computer charger in the robot to bring to the driver station, and we completely forgot about it until right before the match.

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by rlance

I'm pretty sure they were referring to the other robot in the match (keep watching the video) that used duct tape a recycle bin and more duct tape and probably bailing wire.

Yikes! I understand adding a extra function to your robot during competition, but that takes it to another level. Easily the sketchiest thing I have seen in FRC.

Edit: anyone else notice the roll of duct tape to the left of the robot? This match had more than a few issues.

[Jessi Kaestle]

Originally Posted by rlance

I'm pretty sure they were referring to the other robot in the match (keep watching the video) that used duct tape a recycle bin and more duct tape and probably bailing wire.

WOW!!

I'll admit, I had stopped watching after they zoomed in on the crimpers.

I'll second the question of how that passed inspection and ask the more important question of what the intended goal of that apparatus was?

[Dancin103]

We use a 12" lazy susan that has about 100 ball bearings in it for our turret, well in the first two matches of the SCH district we snapped both them in half leaving 200 ball bearings on the field... they were finding them all weekend

The best part was when the field crew came over to our pit and said hey umm you left this on the field and just handed us two handfuls of ball bearings.

[dodar]

In 2009, we used a vertical helix as our way to gather and store the game pieces. Well, we used door stops on the center shaft to move the cells up and down the helix. I remember after quals ended in Atlanta at the World Championship, the head ref came up to us with a good size zip lock bag and asked us if these were ours. Suffice to say, we cleaned out our county of door stops for a good month or so in 2009.

[Everett33]

Back in 2012, this was found on the field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3FzCCJaJi0

*Skip to 3:30

[mrmummert]

I wonder where that Roomba is today? Matt Glennon who is a on and off mentor for our team was field supervisor for Curie that year. You see him in the video (young skinny guy who puts his hat on after they pull the Roomba out.)

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by Jessi Kaestle

WOW!!

I'll admit, I had stopped watching after they zoomed in on the crimpers.

I'll second the question of how that passed inspection and ask the more important question of what the intended goal of that apparatus was?

The story was posted in another thread. Basically their intake and shooter had been destroyed in previous matches, and knowing they were about to lose, this was a last ditch effort at making a tall defense blocking robot. Tongue firmly in cheek, I would imagine. They had it re-weighed in and everything.

[anishde]

Originally Posted by Everett33

Back in 2012, this was found on the field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3FzCCJaJi0

*Skip to 3:30

Nothing quite matched the Roomba incident...though while on the subject of little robots trying to play around with their big brothers, a year previously, Logomotion fields had rogue minibots aplenty. Can anyone dredge up a video of a minibot from 2011 run amok?

[marshall]

Does the Rock Wall count as debris?

[fputmustang3711]

Originally Posted by MaGiC_PiKaChU

How did this even get trough inspection?

That is what many people wanted to know. There was another one like it at the same competition, but it did not fall apart yet it was not inspected. Big red card.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoteb8SJ8lc

[Padava]

A team last year forgot to remove ice packs that were cooling their drive motors. Drove over them and had ice pack goop on the field for the rest of finals. Didn't change anything, but had many people worried when a mysterious liquid appeared on the field.