the original is also spectacular.
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Especially because that was such a reliable robot otherwise. The times when it broke were memorable because there were like three of them total. Long live Jerome 
here’s another one we left a wrench on our climb hex shaft and went to the practice field to test climb right before the first playoff. we got real bendy real fast.
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For 3494, two main issues come to mind, both of which occurred at the PCH Gainesville event in different years, which is ironic since we are a FIN team.
In 2020, we went under the control panel with our retractable hood up:
In 2018, we ran an autonomous that straight up ran us into the wall, and knocked our driver station off, shutting it down:
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Why you always make sure your programmers test the code before running it on the real field:
Why you always verify your sensor readings once the robot is placed on the field:
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I had never seen this from another angle.
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And now weve got part two!
(This time it was actually my fault)
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I don’t have photos anymore, sadly, so you’ll have to use your imagination:
Gear it Forward went to MARC back in 2014, and about halfway through the event our catapult started throwing the ball waaaaay harder than it usually did. This made no sense because the surgical tube that provided tension had been slowly stretching out through the whole season - up to that point, our shot had been getting slightly weaker over time.
Only when we got home did we realize that the welds holding together the back of the chassis had broken. The shot was more powerful because it was thrusting the top half of the chassis (bumpers and all) up and forward eeeeever so slightly on every shot.
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Back in 2020 we made custom drive gearboxes, 3 falcons per side. During our comp we started having issues with one side of the drive going out during matches. We thought it was brown outs due to the amount of falcons, but when we got home and we were inspecting it we found that the drive gear that connected all the falcon motors together had all the teeth shredded off and the motors were just free spinning.
The falcons at the time had a problem were the mounting holes didn’t have a bottom but instead opened up into the coil with very low clearance. We had a bolt running into the coil and it was pulling more current which caused the brownouts.
(tldr: 3 falcon 500 motors driving one aluminum gear makes an aluminum wheel)
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Was mentoring them in '22, thats me at 3:39 in the green jacket taking a picture (was field reset!). That was not the worst damage we took that year…
Notable impacts include going to BO4 at DCMP, falling 180° on the SAME turret we fixed two weeks prior, etc.
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I had just forgotten about the trauma of that season!
Do you want to know the weirdest part of this clip?
Somehow despite this video being available minutes after the match was done, the story for the whole season in Florida, was that we (179) were the ones who knocked off the shooter, and were also the ones who ran it over.
We were just like:
A most consequential spectacular failure in 2017 by 1690 Orbit: https://youtu.be/0tudwPrETRk?t=156
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2014 Inland Empire Regional
One robot had their CRio fall out of their robot…
And then it got run over by another robot…
Bearing or other retention failures can be pretty spectacular. Two in my experience:
- 2008 qual match: Upper stage+manipulator of elevator coming completely out of lower stage (due to insufficient bracing of lower stage rails resulting in separation and the bearings “running off” the rails)
- 2012 elim match: Decapitation due to lazy susan bearing coming apart (insufficient vertical retention for the shock load of going over field barrier)
Interestingly, however, while these were visually spectacular, the recovery in both cases was trivial. The elevator upper stage just popped back in–everything was fine; added bracing to prevent in future. The lazy susan bearing was just zip-tied on (temporary workaround) before being replaced and the upper assembly lightened (longer-term fix).
was happened there did the rope snap or was it something on there robot? Because I did not see the rope after