Silly Programming screw ups (funny)

[EricVanWyk]

My Junior year in Highschool (many moons ago), I was teaching the new programmers how to , well, program the robot. My pedagogical style is very "hands off" / "turn and burn". I knew that the code they had written wasn't going to do what they thought it was going to do, but I most certainly wasn't going to rob them of this learning experience.

Unfortunately, what it did do differed from both of our thoughts significantly. Such was the birth of the horrible offspring of "spin the bottle" and "chicken". It would boot, spin around, invariably stop pointing at either a person or the most valuable object in the room, and charge into it.

Always place your main disconnect in an accessible location.
If you don't, be sure that you design your robot so that you can ride it long enough to find said disconnect.