2010 Lesson Learned: The Negative

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by CallieJ

I did not actually realize this was a problem. Admittedly, I'm not much of an electronics person and I'm always scared to death to touch that thing because it's so costly, but I know that we killed one at SVR ( $5000 we don't have anymore) and got it replaced before our next match... I'll talk to our programmer about that because we just got it out, got a replacement in, and kept playing.

In the last 2 seasons we've replaced our cRio 4 times and have never done it in less than an hour. Each time the cRio that was on the robot was replaced with a unit from spare parts that was completely clean of any code so it required a timely re-imagining process in addition to new user code.

I have seen some teams replace cRios in between elimination matches, but I believe these units had the appropriate code on them already.

Next season I'm going to pursue investing the $700 or so into a spare cRio that we can bring with us to events that will be an exact copy of whatever cRio is on the competition bot so that swapping one out is just a matter of the physical swap.