What hath we wrought? 2016 Horror Stories

[Ringo5tarr]

Of course, how could I forget about our wonderful match in the Iowa regional?

First, the buildup, so we had a camera on our robot, but it was A.) not implemented, and B.) Worthless even if it was because our flywheel didn't have a working encoder until last month (When I eventually became electrical lead).
So it was removed middle of the regional.

Turned out that caused something to go wrong in the teleop programming, so after a successful breach of some static defense, teleop starts and the robot turns, and keeps turning, in a circle, because it was going in donuts and left a mark on the field that was not removed by closing ceremonies.

Fun fact: There is no full video of that match, anywhere. There is video of the robot on it's own going in donuts, but there is not any of the full match.

[OccamzRazor]

Where was that video from this season of the robot at a scrimmage blasting down the field wall and going into a crowd? That looked pretty intense too. Nobody got hurt thanks to some nice dodging skills but that could have gone badly.

[klink135]

During a practice run, our autonomous decided to drop out intake, (Which also functioned as our obstacle manipulator.), and run over it. The 1/8" aluminum was bent and we lost a mini cim as the wires were pulled out of it.

[Toatekua]

Originally Posted by OccamzRazor

Where was that video from this season of the robot at a scrimmage blasting down the field wall and going into a crowd? That looked pretty intense too. Nobody got hurt thanks to some nice dodging skills but that could have gone badly.

Er... That was my team.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me6U_NBAf6g

[adciv]

Originally Posted by Toatekua

Er... That was my team.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me6U_NBAf6g

I can confidently say you might have been the first, but you weren't the last to do that this year.

[OccamzRazor]

Originally Posted by Toatekua

Er... That was my team.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me6U_NBAf6g

It is not the first time I have seen a robot charge into a wall but it is the first time I have seen a robot bust through. I remember the days before they put velcro on the driver stations and robots were knocking driver stations off the platform in autonomous.

[346CADmen]

Originally Posted by Toatekua

Er... That was my team.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me6U_NBAf6g

Red and Blue boulders, oh my!