Our Robot Came Back Broken from the Museum

[mtaman02]

In response to labeling stuff. WE know exactly what was shipped with our bot. Of course no batteries and controls to run the bot. and the Robot controller that we sent with the bot did not have a tether attached to it. the functions of the robot with the broken controller is Left Turns and since it was last years bot we had a rear arm that as of now constantly moves. What I will be doing is hopefully repairing the unit. try to get the program we made for the robot in which will solve half the problem. the other half of it would be how to retrieve any controller info.


i would like to know is there a way to retrieve infor mation from the controller. e.g. downloading the current program to a host pc. well anyways i will be taking a look at the robot sinc ei have not seen it yet but my coaches have and see if i can make heads or tales whether or not the damage that was done can be repaired with out having to by a new robot controller system which will cost about 800 $


as for the museum switching parts on us that could also be a possibilty,even though it sounds like a joke but it could very well be.


and finally we can't call the regional coordinator about this b/c
A: it wasn't during the regionals that this happened
B: it was over the summer at a museum.

the only other person to call is Anna Martinez and see if she can dig up who visited the display which is nearly impossible since it coulda been anyone.

I will make some suggestions to my coaches on how to resolve this problem. and hopefully this will be one problem that will not re occur again.