Silly Programming screw ups (funny)

[pogenwurst]

Originally Posted by Cow Bell Solo

Saying it's Programmings Fault is a viable reason for everything, EXCEPT THE ROBOT FALLING APART

Hmm, I've got a lot of funny stories on that, but my favorite has to be the elimination match when instead of the usual routine of driving forward to get line-crossing points, our robot promptly spent its hybrid mode driving in circles. Of course, I got "the look" from several members of my team, until I looked under our robot afterwards and pointed out the wheel resting diagonally between two pillow blocks.

One instance where it was my fault: half the team was struggling along with me to discover why no Victor we threw at our proto board would drive a motor. What I eventually realized (and of course, failed to tell them), was that I still had the joystick values overridden to neutral whenever a rangefinder read less than 6 inches.

The rangefinder was unplugged, thus "reading" 0 inches.