Week 1: Thoughts, comments

[B. Flaherty]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

1626 nearly destroyed themselves one match.
They hit so hard a large piece of their robot flew off and then it raced to the other side of the field and smashed into that side.
Treat your babies with care folks. Dail down the speed or program it to stop short so you flush six weeks of hard work down the tubes due to a programming mistake.

I just want to say that while it was a programming error, we were very far off from "destroying" ourselves. What you saw fly off was nothing more then a lexan side panel, held on by velcro, and most likely it wasnt properly secured. We wouldn't do something completely idiotic without knowing the consequences. I was the driver, and the only thing I became concerned about was hitting one of our own alliance members. Other then that, it was somewhat fun to watch.