Silly Programming screw ups (funny)

[SgtMillhouse648]

Well, in general, debugging is always the "funnest" part of season...i'm being sarcastic if you didn't catch that one...well, this year, I made a controller for our arm that I strapped to mine, and where I moved my arm, the robot's arm moved...well when we went to test the arm out on last year's robot, I couldn't understand why it was giving me something like -28451 for the degrees of the controller...spent an entire night trying to figure it out. come saturday, I realized what the problem was...I was using int's for my variables and some of my calculations went outside the limits...changed them to longs, and it worked perfect.
Then came the fun part...testing it on this year's robot.
for those of you who don't know, this year's robot's arm can rotate behind it, and with a FP driving it originally, can turn into a giant baseball bat as it's swinging around. Well, I had the m value reversed, so the robot was driving the arm the opposite way it was supposed to. needless to say, I replaced the lower section of the arm at 11:00 the night before our media days...
Malhon