Mistakes

[Cyberphil]

One time, when Brein was running the autonomous in our barn, he was trying to get the ball on the right side of the overhang in front of the red alliance. The autonomous started, all was going well. He then turned toward the right wall, and came a little too close to the wall and the side of the bot got caught on the wall, lifted the front and middle 4 wheels off the ground and completely bent the wall.
He then bent the wall back, and checked all the systems. All was good, so we tried to run the autonomous again. The robot started off, he turned it again towards the outside wall, and proceeded to lift the bot off the ground yet again. Bent the wall the same exact way he did before. Once again, all was good, somehow.

[clark_noah]

Originally Posted by Cyberphil

One time, when Brein was running the autonomous in our barn

wait, a barn?

is that just the place where you test your robot or do you build it there too?


my team uses the student center in our school for testing. We use to test in the halls but the janitors told us we couldn't do it there anymore because we kept putting holes in the drywall and chipping the corners of the bricks. that was back when our driver was new. lol. well even when our driver was experienced it happened..... XD

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by clark_noah

wait, a barn?

is that just the place where you test your robot or do you build it there too?

XD

to call it a barn would be modest- it is a complete field in a robot wonderland


(jealous!)

WC

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by Wayne C.

mistakes- how about your Robocoach making a perfect run and knocking down both track balls - and then suddenly realizing we are the OTHER color?

oops!!

WC

Not as bad as making that same mistake but during regular match play, and that being the last match at nationals which we needed to win to finish in the top 20 and hoping for an alliance pick.

[Molten]

I, for one, am perfect and therefore make no mistakes. Unless you count all the times that I completely screw up.

Seriously though, In 'Aim high' my team was a rookie. I was in charge of rules and had only read the "important" parts. Apparently, the parts you make the bot out of was an important part. Oops. We used illegal motors and had to completely redesign our robot at the event. Still had fun, but I learned to at least skim through the whole manual...if you don't have to actually read it.

[clark_noah]

Originally Posted by Wayne C.

to call it a barn would be modest- it is a complete field in a robot wonderland
(jealous!)

lol. ya. totally jealous. actually I kind of am.... our student center is small for practicing.... how ever, we could always do loops in the bus loops. lol.

Originally Posted by Molten

I, for one, am perfect and therefore make no mistakes. Unless you count all the times that I completely screw up.

of course we don't count that...... why would we?
Can I steal that form you? that is really funny.