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One time I got run over by my FRC robot causing me to shout a profanity around a bunch of probably very disappointed adults at the competition. Not my proudest
by liamkinne 5y ago
One time I got run over by my FRC robot causing me to shout a profanity around a bunch of probably very disappointed adults at the competition. Not my proudest moment...
The story is we were testing some autonomous code I wrote and it stopped moving because it was hanging waiting for on some sensor data. Without remembering to disable the robot first, I walked over to it and found the sensor wasn’t plugged in properly. Plugging it in, the code started running again and proceeded to drive up and on to me...
Nowadays that I work with industrial robot arms (specifically ones with 24,000 RPMs of death on the end of them) I am very aware of how important safety practices are knowing how easy it is to slip up.