Silly Programming screw ups (funny)

[ExarKun666]

Another funny one I got is when in autonomous, this year, we were in a practice match in the regionals at L.A. and it was the first time we were going to test autonomous, my autonomous was just said to drive straight, but what I forgot was that one wheel rotated faster then the other, and in my autonomous code I had the robot going full speed. So autonomous starts, and the left motor goes super fast, and the right goes semi fast, and it veers and hits the center divider really hard. Teleop mode starts, and our driver can't start the robot, we go down to check it out after the match, and the battery cable had come unconnected, as well, as other cables, all because of my autonomous, boy did I get yelled at after that.

[Eric24]

Today at the Vex Championship we added two extra motors to the arm, so I was programming autonomous quickly and forgot to add the stop to those motors. It ended up that the arm flipped over backwards and we actually scored because the arm dumped all the balls into the bridge backwards. Everyone was so stunned since that was never the intention of the program. It was the most amazing autonomous ever!

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Eric24

Today at the Vex Championship we added two extra motors to the arm, so I was programming autonomous quickly and forgot to add the stop to those motors. It ended up that the arm flipped over backwards and we actually scored because the arm dumped all the balls into the bridge backwards. Everyone was so stunned since that was never the intention of the program. It was the most amazing autonomous ever!

Are you keeping that "bug"?

[chaoticprout]

Originally Posted by EricH

Are you keeping that "bug"?

Haha I was reffing and saw this, apparently he just shortened the time that the motors run, but the look on the drive teams faces as the bot accidently scored 6 balls was AMAZING.

[Eric24]

I modified the "bug" slightly so that the arm didn't go quite as far to prevent damage to the robot, but it was very convent since thats what I was going to work on next.

[slavik262]

At the Milwaukee competition, the programming port broke on our controller and we were forced to replace it with the previous year's controller. After re-wiring everything autonomous turns refused to work, yet teleoperated turning was fine. This problem wasn't solved until our next regional (Michigan), when I noticed that the wires for the drive train motors had been switched. The teleoperated code hadn't presented a problem because I had accidentall switched the inputs in the arcade-style drive code.