What is the stupidest thing a person has ever done on your team during season???. With us it would have to be that one of our Engineers got his fingers in last years gear box, he was changing the gears as they were moving. (He cut his finger, fainted and a well…a lot more went on). Then yesterday as my teammate was drilling the wholes in the frame to mount the lexan he went right through and drilled into our wheels and all the air went bye bye :ahh:
our club sponsor was showing off our robot last year to his AP Physics class as we were loading it into the crate to be shipped later that day. He took it outside, put it in 2nd gear, and floored it down the sidewalk. He hit a 4 inch gap in the sidewalk at about 15 mph, got a 130 lb bot completely airborne, and broke both sides of the drive upon landing. We had to put it in the crate broken and fix it at the competition (when we didn’t have the time to spare)
*Originally posted by f22flyboy *
**our club sponsor was showing off our robot last year to his AP Physics class as we were loading it into the crate to be shipped later that day. He took it outside, put it in 2nd gear, and floored it down the sidewalk. He hit a 4 inch gap in the sidewalk at about 15 mph, got a 130 lb bot completely airborne, and broke both sides of the drive upon landing. We had to put it in the crate broken and fix it at the competition (when we didn’t have the time to spare) **
Oh god, I can imagine a couple of our kids doing that.
Ooh, I found it! Copied exactly from my original post in one of those threads:
I call this story “The Fallen Superman”.
The year is 2000. The place is our HQ at an undisclosed location on the Newport RI Navy Base. More specifically, the field we built. Anyhow, my common way of getting from one side of the field to the other was leaping Superman-esk, extending myself, and swinging off the bar (actually, I was also able to walk under without hitting my head, but that’s not the point). So one time, in front of a group of girls, I did my leap, and extened myself. Unfortunately, the swinging off the bar never happened. I missed and, fully extended, hit the ramp front-first.
Well, the girls got a good laugh, and I did as well after I caught my breath. Now if that’s not making myself look idiotic, I don’t know what is.
I was bringing the 2 latest robots of the past (shrug) to my school near the beginning of the school year to show off. It started raining…hard. I had a tarp but no good way to attach it. I figured that if I went fast enough, the water would just miss the 5’ object exending above the cab of my truck. When I got to the school, both bots were soaked…so we waited about 5 minutes and powered them up. Hehe.
The stupidest thing I’ve done is centerpunched my thumb. I was going to drill a hole in an axle that was about .25" in diameter. So being the stupid person i am, i held it on the table and attempted to centerpunch it. Not surprisingly, it slipped and i got a nice puncture wound. Another dumb story: This one freshman on our team was irritating other freshmen people (sensing a trend?),so they started throwing stuff at him or something to that effect. He knocked out the 20lb lead block holding our workroom door open. We store all our tools and parts in that room, and just that day, the coach with the keys left early to go see his sick baby. Sigh And people wonder why freshmen get no respect…
*Originally posted by narenr *
The stupidest thing I’ve done is centerpunched my thumb. I was going to drill a hole in an axle that was about .25" in diameter. So being the stupid person i am, i held it on the table and attempted to centerpunch it. Not surprisingly, it slipped and i got a nice puncture wound.
I’ve centerpunched my thumb before when marking a piece of plastic, but it resulted in just a lot of internal bleeding for me. I didn’t think it made snese at the time, and now I feel even weirder.
I don’t think my team is big enough to encounter anything as harsh. The worst thing would have to be allowing our school’s engineering class (all males) put together the ramp. I have to give it to them with the fact that they just about finished it. The problem was that they didn’t realize until a few days after they started that they weren’t using 2 by 4s. The catch was that they couldn’t figure out why it didn’t measure up until i pulled their teacher aside to tell him what they were doing wrong since they wouldn’t listen to me.
I once made a vice vibrate off the drill press causing it to fall making a nice little hole in the garage floor…
at least it didn’t fall on my foot.
turning on autonomus mode on the top of the ramp and completely breaking off both sides of polycarbonate