Worst Decision of the Week!

[JJMax7]

So, in the rush to finish the robot this week, we had the great idea to fix our dongle. In the process, it broke. We can't live without disable-ness and easy auto, so we came up with this:



Yes, the wires are stuck directly into the port with no pin, connector, or solder.

So, what was your worst desicion of the week?

[Tristan Lall]

What, you've never used a paper clip for this purpose?

Oh, and my worst decision of the week (last week, really) is brought to you by the letters and numbers 12L14....

[Billfred]

Not sleeping enough and eating too much pizza.

--Billfred (written while nursing one heck of a sore throat)

[Rick TYler]

It's not a horror story, and wasn't a bad decision, but four students took the control console to Nathan's home to wire up the controls and solder the Port 3 DB 15 connector to the RIO's console. Despite starting at 10pm and finishing at 3am, everything worked the first time it was plugged in. Freaking amazing.

[NeedMoreEngines]

Not using those "Mechanix" gloves sooner. I now have 3 fairly large cuts on one hand. One of them kind of leaked blood for an hour.

Luckily, I wore them and soon after I had another mishap. I was drilling and the bit sucked in the glove and twisted my arm around. I thought for sure my finger was wrecked but the gloves protected it without a scratch.

Thanks Mechanix! (cheesy smile & thumbs up)

[Barry Craig]

Riveting my palm. Okay, it wasn't exactly riveting it, but my hand got stuck in the pinch point of the pop riveter. I have also done this with wire strippers, polycarbonate, aluminum and other pointy things, almost all on my left hand. I swear, after the season's over, my hand will just shrivel up and fall off.

[Murf the Smurf]

Welding a metal bracket with a gas welder to wood

burn baby burn

ha ha ha

need more mountain dew

[BobC]

My Worst Decision of the Week?? Reading this thread!!

[Dan Petrovic]

The worst decision of the entire build season:

Painting the robot

We are overweight...

But it looks real good!

[Cuog]

My worst descision both happened monday, first while testing autonomous i set the laptop on the robot while it ran off and stepped on the cord pulling off the computer while i ran behind to make sure it didnt fall

then a programming cable got left on the robot and melted on one of the motors and let out the magic smoke(luckily only the cable was damaged)

[ReaverOfSouls]

Although it didn't happen this week, Our biggest mistake was when someone tried to hotwire a gear box to a battery to test it. There was alot of smoke...

[Nita]

We fried a victor because it was wired the wrong way.

[Stuart]

eating that 5th fajita monday dinner . . made for a bad night/morning. but they were so good

[atomikitten]

You know, when it's all over, no one says they wish spending more time at work. They wish they spent more time at home with the family (at school with the team) raising the child (building the robot).
Seniors, do you realize this is your last robot season?!

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by atomikitten

You know, when it's all over, no one says they wish spending more time at work. They wish they spent more time at home with the family (at school with the team) raising the child (building the robot).
Seniors, do you realize this is your last robot season?!

there's always mentoring...i'll be with either 190 or another Worcester team next year!