The Best of UTC

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by guju4life2005

From Goya's Post
then something went wrong with our robot, during inspections the inspector didnt notice our wirring was backwards, something which would have made our robot disable itself but it worked...some wire became disconnected and someone else put them in, this way the correct way..this disabled our robot until after our quarterfinals...

For any one who foung that confusing or any one who wondered why we were dead on the feild in the first quater final(other than our autonomous mode which worked even when the bot didn't) This is what happened.

During allience selections one of the people on our team was tightening a nut on our spool when the wrench fell. It missed every thing critical but knocked out our PWM cables for the victors not a big problem but because we had a small team I was the only one who worked on programming and controls. However I was at the aliance captains meetings(we had 2 because we had a few questions they couldnt answer) By the time the second meeting was over we had to que start the first match, I literally had to put the cables in as we rolled the bot onto the field. Not having time to think or test the bot I plugged them in Black on the outside just like they should be. However this still gave us no control over the bot. After our first match I with help from the Aztechs captain an the guys from 1665 looked over the bot and couldnot I dentify the problem. After 2 minutes I made the call to call up the next team (521 i believe) to replace our bot I finished the Quaterfinals in the box as Aliance captain. When I got back to the pits I could finally relax and check out the bot and realized all 5 PWM's to the victors were plugged in the wrong way thus the pwms on the RC would have also had to be plugged in the wrong way in order for the signal to reach the motors. So in all actuality we broke the robot by wiring it write. How ever it was a great opputunity for me to learn how to trouble shoot a victor.

As for the best part It would be meeting the Guys Girls and Mentors from 1665 who quickly became our friends and in the end our alliance partners. This seems to be a relationship that will develop in our future years