It is impossible... ...until there is no other way...

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

Oh man, your win in that match was amazing. I have been wondering for quite a while now why your robot went up in smoke. I was also surprised to see that the E-Stop button didn't work (I have this memory of your driver jamming it and yelling at the refs...)

Thanks! I was actually the one who hit the E-Stop (Nick, the driver may have hit it after me - I'm sure it was hit more than once), it's the first time I've ever had the pleasure of doing so since I first got involved back in 2005. In retrospect, hitting the E-Stop was a bit pointless, because the only way to get the smoke to stop was to turn the robot's power off - but at the time it seemed like the correct action.

I'm still waiting for Pictures of the smoke cloud to surface...