What is the strangest issue with a robot you have ever seen?

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Originally Posted by SpoonMechanic

That time the e-stop completely malfunctioned and a robot broke out in auto to terrify the front row. The robot uprising has begun.

We were at that one. Eventually something gets through all the safeties. The key is that it doesn't happen often.

We made an interesting discovery this year with our robot. It's a 6 wheel drive using pneumatic tires. With the right PID values, we can make it go sideways by rocking/bouncing forward and back. We should have some short video of this somewhere. We think it's probably killer on the WCD though.

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The strangest issue we had was at our Ann Arbor event when our robot kept flipping over. Our robot had never flipped before, even at our shop. We flipped 3 times in a row, in the playoffs. We didn't change anything from our first event besides take weight off our arm which actually should have made it less likely to tip. We ended up just adding a total of like 15 pounds to the front of our robot and we never tipped, we never even rocked anymore, we would just roll right over defenses and we level when we got off them.

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This year I saw two strange issues. One from my team and another from a nearby team.

First, a team in the sterling competition in michigan missed a decimal point in their coding for autonomous. When they started the match their bot went nearly full speed into the wall under the red alliance drive stations. The bot broke five welds on that side of the field.

Second, we had a catapult type arm that fed into our wheel shooter. Originally we thought of putting a hand type device on the end of the lever but in the end it turned out to be a plastic salad bowl. The plastic salad bowl actually worked better than a stainless steel on we got but it would need replacement every couple matches. FRC actually wrote in official documentation the term "salad bowl" which is cool.