Hey all Midwest Regional teams,
Team 1038 shot a few hundred pics of the outrageous action from the Regional and would like to know who would like the full res shots of their robot. Simply drop me a PM with an email address and I will send any shots I have on thier way! I will post a mini-flood to the site here, but they will be 'lil ones to keep the bandwidth down.
Mighty nice of you!
If it isn’t too much trouble, I’d love what you can scrape together. Consider the PM sent.
Thank you,
-q (and i’m sure 1024 as well)
p.s. We’re making travel arrangements for Atlanta. Who knows? Maybe our pits will be neighbors again.
I guess we need to think about stocking up on supplies then, considering what happened to your guys “supply chain” last year? 
All kidding aside, you guys rocked in your winning alliance, I look forward to seeing you again in Atlanta! I’ll send you what I have after I sort them out and pretty them up a tad…
A picture of 1024 on fire would be great to have to. Some people don’t believe me that it happened.
I also hope it doesn’t happen again… maybe better if nobody has a picture. :o
-q
what the story behind that anyways?
The short occured at one of our front ultrasonic sensors. The sensor was connected with relatively thin PWM wire, so the thin gauge had a lot of quick smoke/flame but went out just as quickly. The thing that made it look so bad was our electronics/guts cover…
Since most of that pwm wire was bundled under the cover, it made a ton of smoke inside which slowly was blown out a hole in the forward stiffener box by the victor fans and just convection in general… making the smoke seem to continue to pour out while it had already stopped.
So… I guess the ultrasonics ended up being un-safety sensors… :o
-q
I took a few shots when the cloud of smoke went up, unfortunately the smoke doesn’t show on the pics… That was a heck of a quick fix, btw!
I’m not sure if it was caught in the video recording / streaming. I’ll check once they put the archives up.
What type of Ultrasonic sensors (Brand / model) were you using Qbranch?
If you remember which match it happened, they are all on TBA now.
It’s not the sensor’s fault… Judging by all the surrounding circumstances (vibration, lay of the wires, etc) our best guess is a piece of aluminum found its way down in the electrical tape holding the connector securely and shorted the power to ground.
As I’ve advertised in the past, I’m a PING))) fan.
-q