I'll never forget when our 2018 robot started shaking violently and uncontrollably on the practice field and the programmer exclaimed "That's the PID working!"
If you pay attention to safety, you can't pay attention to the robot. If you pay attention to the robot, you can't pay attention to safety. Choose one.
I’ll never forget when we went to a week zero event excited to try out our robot and it violently rips apart because we chose the wrong auto in the first test match.
Once upon a time another team asked for help programming their autonomous mode and I responded. They told me to program it to move forward at full speed for a certain time. I did. During the match, the robot immediately popped a wheelie, held it for a substantial distance, and slammed down exactly where it was supposed to stop.
to be fair programming gamepads are pretty easy (albeit tedious). Things only get a bit complicated when you use the commandjoystick class instead of the xbox or ps5 controller class like a normal person
Me an VRC programmer when the code works the 15 times I tested it alone, but fails the first time my team sees it at comp (fails so hard it breaks the bot)
my 2018 bot was liteally called ttr (duct)tape tierap(zipties) rope our firsts regional banner was hung on the wall with a broken piece of rope, zipties and rope for atleast 3 years
This was my first year in Robotics. and I ended up getting thrusted Into this years FTC challenge as our teams captain and we somehow just got invited to semi-area only because they "had extra room", so with no time and a half working autonomous our team is struggling to get this bot temporarily finished by this saturday😭 Wish TechSupport Luck We're gonna need it.
I’m the designer for my team, Team 6317, I have been the ONLY designer for three years, and I am in my junior year. I’m also the one with the most experience running the machinery, if something needs to be machined I put it on the CNC and grab the first person I see that isn’t busy, doesn’t matter who it is, tell them to put on a pair of safety glasses and to only smack the big red button if they sparks or if the tool is clearly broken.
What about when it is two weeks into build season and the design team still hasn't finished designing (I'm programming captain and have already finished coding the entire robot before design even finished designing)
You know I’m the best guy on the team I think because last year I did code and mechanical and I tried out for drive team but got pit crew instead this year I’m doing mechanical electrical and cad so I know how everyone feels also you forgot the guy who almost kills a judge my friend on the drive team almost did that we still make fun of him FRC 6344 by the way
Me watching my bot wondering why our driver is making certain plays when i know damn well that if i was driver we wouldnt make it past alliance selection Also literally every finals backup bot bowed out. Not even halfway through lunch one of them had already packed and left
This is the structure of every FRC team during the preseason: Hardware - building stuff Business - writing videos and grant essays Software- making memes
My most gracious slander towards first was that the mentor(s) pretty much saw "ooh, science project that incompetent kids can't/won't build", and then proceeded to build the entire thing -_+ I know it's hard/tough for after-school programs to gain any noterieriety whatsoever, but the incel environment is not conducive to what teenagers generally look for in a "high-school experience." Also, no where is a robot like the ones built used in any general engineering professional-setting. I'd rather work on my homework
Clearly you don't understand the full extent of what this program is capable of and that's only on the engineering front. As a four-year vet on my current team I've learned (from mentors and elder students) more about mechanical engineering than many people will ever know. I've learned about tolerances, load paths, fasteners, machining methods, and so much more. Though the robots themselves are not applicable outside of FRC, the techniques used to create them very much are.
