Blood, sweat, & tears.

[thewhit]

Our claw and arm was being worked on and someone pulled our pulley and it slipped off and fell 3ft onto one of our members head! He was fine and acted normal the whole time...but I ended up taking him to the emergency room to get 5 staples in his head. Accidents are scary.

[Danny McC]

Yeah i was putting a handle on our controllers today and i didnt know it was on >.< And the next thing i know everyones yelling at me and i dont know why. I looked over the platforms were almost on top of one of our mentors

[JaneYoung]

I'm definitely thinking this is a great season for Safety Captains and team members to be vigilant with safety precautions and staying focused and aware of what's going on with and around the robot(s).

[thewhit]

I think everything is worth is somewhat...as a team you learn so much and create such an amazing machine...not all students or mentors in general could go through what we go through. Just an hour ago a metal shaving flew into my eye and i had to get a eye wash and tweeze it out....but then shortly after Im here typing about it and finishing up the robot. So the achivement is so great with these teams that the blood,sweat, and tears pay back in the end.

[Robo_Coyote]

lol that’s why safety glasses were invented, nut ya I had to learn that the hard way 2 years ago during my sophomore year. Note to all other teams expanded aluminum when cut is very sharp I cant count the number of cuts on my hands from this why did I decide this is what my team needed on our ramp. Freaken captain everything ends up my fault lol

[thewhit]

I had safety glasses on believe it or not...and I was not close to the drill bits at all. It was just a random piece dying to get into my eye haha. Oh the joys that come with Robotics.

[chris31]

My fingers hurt talking about how you guys just drill your fingers.

Not a robotics injury but yesterday my friend was next to the room we were working in and just passed out cold. I was at Lowes and came back to a huge scene. Luckily the robotics team isn't as dumb as the freshman class (the people just standing around) and got 911 called and made sure she was taken care off. She was diagnosed with some heart issue and is now on medication.

We have had a few small cuts, nothing to bad.

[Danny McC]

Well you know lets hope shes ok.

[MasterZahn]

My friend and I were given the task of making a casing for our battery, to hold it on the robot. So we decided to make it out of very thin metal.(since it weighed next to nothing ) Only problem was that when we were driving the robot around, testing the drive shafts, the positive and negitive ends of the batteries both touched the metal at the same time!

Causing thick heavy sparks to fly 15 feet in the air!!

We got the battery out of the way before the battery fried, and scrapped the metal holder for a plastic one. The irony of this story is that me and my friend are both on the programming/Electrical team! This happened in the first week out of six, and not a day has past where we were not reminded about it.

[thewhit]

Man Oh Man...this is the best thread. Im glad I made it. Clearly all of us have some kind of accident. Tough kids we are haha.

[Robo_Coyote]

Nothing is better than the time we wrapped our battery with copper wire at UC Davis and during a safety inspection pulled our battery out and needless to say the battery touched and arched and then continued to melt through the outer casing of our battery....... we don't use this battery anymore.... and I still was named captain this year even after my many misshapes over the last two years.

[Dantvman27]

at comp last year, our mentor clipped his finger with the battery and was bleeding while we were on the field and we didnt have a bandaid but we had eletrical tape, and to make a long story short, eletrical tape is now called a first band-aid at our meetings

[FunkyRatDemon]

We decided that if someone dies, we would name the robot after ME!
(In all seriousness, an electrical cord snapped on me (someone was standing on it) and it snapped back and hit me in the nose slightly: Im alive...but I really wanted the robot to be named Jake)

[thewhit]

This is staged. He really did get the staples in the head from the robot falling (and he is just fine) but we had some fun with the staple gun and camera.

[Josh Goodman]

Well lets see.....

Last year, we had a table fall on one of our students after "hugging" it.
Also one of our mentors (cough cough kim) had some trouble with a box cutter and soda can......yea that wasn't pretty.