why blame the programmers??

[Al3+]

Originally Posted by FRC4ME

EDIT - Oh, and I saw this once:
Me: "The left motor needs to be reversed, but other than that, everything works well."
Electrical: "We can fix that in hardware!"
Programming: "We can fix that in software!"

<five minutes later>

Me: "Umm...the left motor is still reversed."
Electrical: "We fixed that!"
Programming: "We fixed that!"
Me: <facepalm>

Happened to our team too. Actually it was more complex. We had two independently driven motors on each side, and just one motor out of four was reversed. Not realizing this, we flipped the entire side, so the other one on that side was now reversed. Then the electronics changed the wiring on the first one, making the whole side reversed.

Also the drivers once went into a match with the joysticks backward. He mentioned to me afterward the confusion this caused, and I almost went to fix the direction until he clarified that it wasn't the drive that was reversed.