Problems with IR Board

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

That turns out not to be the case.

An "anti-static bag" is conductive. It protects against static electricity building up on the bag itself and then zapping something inside it. But exactly because it is conductive, putting a device on top of it is almost like putting a device on a piece of metal. Even if it doesn't short itself out just by sitting there, you can very easily zap it by touching it and having the current flow through the bag to ground.

I would think that FIRST would have put a warning on the datasheet announcing something like this if it were something they expected us to be handling a lot. Not every team has a trained electonics Mentor, and something like this could indeed be looked over if you weren't trained in how to handle circuit boards.

I'm even hesitant in testing this, or doing anything with it till we get the full aspect of what it's used for, but maybe that's just because I've broken a ton of FIRST related parts from the kit in the past and it's my forced cautious nature taking over me now.