Silly Programming screw ups (funny)

[ABlackburn]

testing code on our old 2005 robot in our school hallways late at night. Running autonomous it would drive straight while extending the arm (a VERY STRONG TELESCOPING ARM) and the SPIN very quickly. now keep in mind our arm that year could reach 11 feet, and our robot could spin in place in about 2 seconds. Math geeks know this means tip of that arm could max at a speed of about 34.54 feet per second! now, our hallways in our school aren't even 11 ft across, so needless to say we banged up a few lockers. One guy on our team, his name is John, was watching it the whole time, and noticed it always was having a problem after it went something like 13 ft. He says "OK, if it happens again, its gonna hit locker.......*counting to himself quick*.......locker number 874." So while he's goofing off, we get the robot hooked up to a laptop to see what our display says while it's running. So off the robot goes, and after 13 feet we started getting a repeating message on the screen VERY quickly. We pause it for a second, and it say:


"PROBLEMS, ISSUES, CAN'T TAKE IT. RESTARTING. PROBLEMS, ISSUES, CAN'T TAKE IT. RESTARTING. PROBLEMS, ISSUES, CAN'T TAKE IT. RESTARTING. PROBLEMS, ISSUES, CAN'T TAKE IT. RESTARTING. PROBLEMS, ISSUES, CAN'T TAKE IT. RESTARTING. PROBLEMS, ISSUES, CAN'T TAKE IT. RESTARTING. PROBLEMS, ISSUES, CAN'T TAKE IT. RESTARTING."...............



John, walks over and inspects the lockers, grins and says "CALLED IT!" (it hit the locker right in the dead center)