Does the IR board have to go in the crate?

[dyanoshak]

We are trying to help out another team with fixing their IR board, but I don't think we're going to be able to get a working ICSP programmer before the robot ships tomorrow. Would it be legal to not ship the IR board with the robot and fix it in the 10 hour fix-it windows?

[SL8]

yes, the robot is considered part of the robot, especially considering that it is normally mounted on the robot. <R28>

[SL8]

Originally Posted by dyanoshak

Would it be legal to not ship the IR board with the robot and fix it in the 10 hour fix-it windows?

It would not be legal to do it in the 10 hr fix it windows. You can however put it on when you get to the competition.

[vballterry]

Has anyone checked with on the First Q & A about this? Our board just went out today as we were about to upload hybrid code - then we find out about the inherent power up/down problem corrupting the firmware. How can we get/make the proper cable to fix this in such a short time? Will they really say "read the rules" when they ship us an unreliable part?

Team Update #10 came out Thursday. I guess that is considered enough time to come up with such an atypical cable.

Sorry about the whining. We'll be ready to fix it in Phoenix.

[Jeff Waegelin]

Originally Posted by SL8

It would not be legal to do it in the 10 hr fix it windows. You can however put it on when you get to the competition.

I would double-check this on Q&A. I would think it's something legal to do in the fix-it windows.

[GaryVoshol]

Something that I never realized before reading one of Dave L's posts in another thread, is that there are two different kinds of FIX-IT windows. The first one after Ship is truly just for fixing things. You can build SPARE and REPLACEMENT parts, but not UPGRADES. Only in the ones that start with Week 1 Regionals can you build UPGRADE parts. (Ref: <R29> vs <R32>)