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Re: What's the Stupidest/Funniest Thing you did in Robotics during the '06 Season?

This is a video from the 2005 season. We just mounted our motors and trans and wanted to take a test drive. So we quick rigged an electronics board, and well the rest was just awesome.
The Test Video

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Re: What's the Stupidest/Funniest Thing you did in Robotics during the '06 Season?

I got a speeding ticket, going 40 in a 35.

It was 6:30 in the morning and I was driving in the hills of Austin, trying to find the all night Kinkos out there to do some stuff for the team. I wanted to be able to get it to one of the leads when the team met @ 8a.m. I was trying to find the speed limit signs (lots of trees) and was thinking 40 was probably about right when I went around a curve..just as I went around a curve, I thought, 'hmm, this might be a 30 or 35 mph zone, it's a little wind-y and curvy here..' and as I slowed to 35, I saw a 35mph sign and also the red lights in my rear view. I pulled over, got my ticket and then asked directions to the Kinkos. The officer was very helpful.

sidenote: the Kinkos couldn't do what I needed even though I had called. I ended up going to one in by the university where I work that opens at 8 and I got to the team mtg. @ 9 - late anyway...
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This is a video from the 2005 season. We just mounted our motors and trans and wanted to take a test drive. So we quick rigged an electronics board, and well the rest was just awesome.
The Test Video
The best part of that video was at the end seeing all the adults watching
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This is a video from the 2005 season. We just mounted our motors and trans and wanted to take a test drive. So we quick rigged an electronics board, and well the rest was just awesome.
The Test Video
Yea we did something similar to that, we got really bored pre-season one day and decided to attach a classroom chair on to one of our robots with zip-ties

Oh and at the Waterloo regional our team member who was representing us during the playoff picking ceremonies had the biggest voice crack ever.. imagine "610 graciously ACCEPTS (in a high pitch girly screech..)" I was in the pits and could barely hear what was going on, but i definitely could hear this horrible screech
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Yea we did something similar to that, we got really bored pre-season one day and decided to attach a classroom chair on to one of our robots with zip-ties
Oh yeah...we've done that. I think it was in postseason or something (or after we had shipped the '06 robot), but we drilled a 2x4 onto our '05 bot and drove around school with our controller on a team member's lap. People we passed in the halls were kinda like "And this is the NJ '05 Regional Rookie All-Star team???" Yeah...we had fun.

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Re: What's the Stupidest/Funniest Thing you did in Robotics during the '06 Season?

I'm reminded of something that happened my freshmen year. We had a small test robot sitting around, and a new member not skilled in electronics walked by. The drive motor for it's arm was off, so the output leads from a victor were hanging loose. Not knowing what was going on, the new member plugged those into the fuse board, making it so power was coming into the victor from both ends. When we plugged the bot in to test the drive train, we saw some pretty fireworks. This has been the only time that I have seen a victor spit molten slag into the air, as well as fill an entire room with smoke. All in all, the lesson learned was to check all wiring before running a bot.
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I think 1456's stupidest moment was our Mentor-Driven trek to the outside stairway to play with a rather fast motor connected to a wheel and some electrical tape so that it was like a fan (With the electrical tape blade). It ended up going to fast and spun out of control and we ground away a good part of the inside of the wheel...Oops!
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